The Bhutanese monk who carries around the old rifle recounts with a smile that the weapon was once used to shoot Tibetans, but he is careful not to explain the reasons for those fratricidal wars.

Join us for a screening and discussion of The Monk and the Gun by Oscar-nominated Bhutanese filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji. Uplifting, humorous and thoughtful, the dramedy plays out during Bhutan's ...

In 2006 the isolated, landlocked Kingdom of Bhutan took its first tentative steps ... in a critical step towards his country’s modernisation. The Monk and the Gun, from writer-director Pawo ...

Bhutan's first international film festival, the Kingdom of Bhutan International Film Festival, concluded today in the capital ...

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Blockchain intelligence firm Arkham revealed on September 16, 2024, that Bhutan's bitcoin holdings have reached $750 million. This represents approximately 27.9% of Bhutan's estimated 2023 Gross ...

That’s just another normal working day at Bhutan’s Paro International Airport (PBH), widely considered one of the most technically difficult plane landings in the world. Maneuvering onto a ...

It was suggested by Karma Phuntsho, an accomplished Bhutanese scholar, who is a close friend of my mother’s. He is a former monk, who completed his Buddhist monastic education in South India ...

At Damchen Lhakhang, a tiny 14th century monastery in Bhutan’s Gangtey valley, a dozen monks sit cross-legged, faintly swaying as they chant. A hundred butterlamps flicker, and through the ...

Paro International Airport in Bhutan, situated between 18,000-foot mountain peaks and nearby residential areas, provides such a challenge to pilots that only 50 jet jockeys worldwide have been ...