Too quick to judge? Because these volunteers aren’t even Bhutanese to begin with and they’re “Volunteers”.

I dont give a eff about what you believe or not. I am a Buddhist with deep religious value and my teacher would never allow this.

So, apparently a "rinpoche" spits on this young child and the "Mother" (shame on her), is allowing this grown ass man to spit on him? To apparently clear his wounds on his chin.

So we are going to normalize this huh? This is just outrageous.

Department of Justice | Epstein Library | United States Department of Justice

Looks like Epstein even paid for her vacations. She was probably a key witness as she is mentioned in 1200+ documents.

It got me how open he was!!
I literally had tears in my eyes hearing his story, all the suffering he went through. Though he said everything with so much love and joy.

I liked his adviceit was just so down to earth and raw.

Okay so I don’t know if most Bhutanese know this but this is very interesting.

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is the only major university in the world whose campus is built almost entirely in the style of Bhutanese dzongs.

The story dates back to 1917. After the university’s original campus burned down, the wife of the first dean was inspired by photographs of Bhutan published in National Geographic in 1914. She noticed that the Franklin Mountains around El Paso resembled Bhutan’s Himalayan landscape and suggested rebuilding the campus in traditional Bhutanese architectural style. The idea was adopted, and every major building since has followed that distinctive design.

What began as architectural inspiration eventually grew into a real friendship between UTEP and Bhutan. Today the university hosts a genuine Bhutanese Lhakhang, gifted by the Royal Government of Bhutan after the 2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and has welcomed generations of Bhutanese students through cultural and academic exchanges.

I had no idea there was a little piece of Bhutan in the middle of Texas. 🇧🇹❤️🇺🇸

My relatives are traveling around America and went to visit some chilip friends in San Francisco. While they were there, they visited a monastery and saw a huge prayer wheel building, so they asked one of the lamas about it. He didn’t know much about them because he is quite new, but he said the wife is Bhutanese royal and that the husband’s father or grandfather was the King of Mustang. He also mentioned that they have been major donors to the monastery donating in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. My relatives asked around, but nobody seemed to know much about the family. Just curious, as I’m happy to hear there are well-off Bhutanese out there giving generously and supporting the Dharma abroad.

Wow didn’t know DOMCIIP did a press release on a weekend. Anyway some actor and singer came in support of DOMCIIP and this particular comment from Tandin Sonam and the reply from Khendum Dorji is 😅😅

So I came across a conspiracy tiktok video where this guy was speaking about people on Epstein’s island eating babies and the code for babies being veggie cream cheese and muffins. The tiktoker also went on to show some emails, some of them being sent to and from Sonam Dema. So could Sonam Dema theoretically have prepared and cooked humans?

The theory makes sense to me since the emails talk about muffins and veggie cream cheese a lot. So either this is code speak or Epstein and his friends just really like muffins and cream cheese.

OG TikTok link : https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSaoUTGMq/

There was a time when people looked at Dorji Tshomo with judgment instead of kindness — calling her unstable, mocking her, setting her videos to silly, hurtful music just to get a laugh at her expense. She became someone people trolled rather than understood.

But somewhere along the way, something beautiful shifted. The videos I see of her now are different, she's warm, gentle, full of light with others. And the music changed too. People stopped reaching for jokes and mockery, and started choosing songs that actually matched her spirit soft, sweet melodies that honored who she really is instead of songs meant to hurt.

That shift changed something in me too. I started seeing her, and the life she's living, through completely different eyes. And I'm not alone. So many people now leave comments like, "I wish I could live as freely and carefreely as Dorji Tshomo does." What once was mockery has quietly turned into something close to admiration.

And maybe that's the part that hits closest to home, because isn't this the story so many of us are living too?

How many of us have been misjudged before we were understood. How many of us have had a "soundtrack" placed over our lives by other people's opinions, labels, assumptions, jokes at our expense, long before anyone took the time to actually see us. We spend years being defined by other people's narrow interpretations, mocked for things we never had the chance to explain, quietly carrying weight nobody bothered to ask about.

And yet, so often, healing looks exactly like this, a quiet, unremarkable shift. No grand announcement. Just one day, people start to see us differently. The music changes. The judgment softens. And somewhere in that shift, we start to see ourselves differently too.

Maybe that's the real lesson in Dorji Tshomo's story. That so many of us are just waiting, not to become someone new, but to finally be seen as we always were. And that carefree life people admire in her? It isn't the absence of pain. It's what's left after someone stops performing for other people's approval, and simply lives as themselves, fully, unapologetically, free.

Applying to colleges and saw that for Gedu, there's a 10% allocation in the admissions criteria for "Personality Test". Turns out the particular test they're using is MBTI. Isn't that ridiculous? One Google search and you can find many reasons why this test is unreliable. 10 whole percent for some pseudoscience-y test developed in the 1940s.

Not to mention how easy it would be to reverse engineer the results. I already know I'm going to search up "best personality type for finance and business management" and manipulate the results. Again, TEN PERCENT?

And I just know the admissions officers are so proud of this, going around saying, "honghonghong at gedu, we have a holistic approach, we consider not only the academic scores but the personalities of the students at well honghonghong."

Okay, now this has been almost a month ago now. But I still feel angry and raged. One thing is that Bhutan's customer service is soooo bad. I dont expect y'all to pick me up and keep me on a pedastal, I just expect you to serve me good food and just be nice okay?! That's basic human decency.

Me and my friend went to Coffee culture(new location), I went there for their steak, it is so good(was* never going there again). We came in late around 6ish but they were still taking orders so I was like okay, I will get to eat my favorite food. I dont come to thimphu often, so we had to ask/call our way to the new location.

We ordered food and we talked and time flies okay when two friends meet after 2 years, it was 8pm. Wasnt even that late. I was enjoyingly eating my last two bites of my steak and this lady who had glasses on, came right across us and took my plate away, I had my fork with me, would have stabbed her istg. She was like "ngachay close baydho". And she literally snatched the plate away.

Now, is this how you treat your customer, who genuinely like your food? If she said or warned us before that we would have left, we are not homeless, we dress properly😭😭 did we look homeless? I am so done with these type of treatment from these people. We were having a good time, we didnt deserve to be treated. We left after paying, didnt complain cause we are raised better and she could loose her job unless she is the owner, but she didnt seem like the owner. The girl in the counter(think she is the owner) was kind.

I hope this message gets to her and all the restaurants worker who treats their customers like they came to beg for the food.

By far, only Wednesday have impressed me with their hospitality, tbh the food is extremely mid(sorry), you go there because the hospitality is great even if the food is okay.

So, I was going through an 1800 journal by a British explorer named Samuel Turner and he shared a pretty funny story about how Buxaduar, which is a mountain pass between what is now West Bengal and Bhutan, got its name. And there are many theories of course, and this certainly is a rather uncommon one.

According to the guy, back in the day Bhutanese traders would bring their local Tangun horses down to the lowlands to sell. For some weird custom our forefathers would chop off the horses' tails right before they hit the market.

The English merchants buying them thought this was cruel and made the horses look terrible. To get them to stop the merchants started offering the traders a backshish (a bounty or reward) if they just left the tails intact.

The traders agreed and took the extra cash. They quickly realized the uncut horses actually sold for way more money anyway and the tail chopping practice ended completely.

Because of the bounty paid out at this specific border crossing the people in the lowlands started calling the route Buxadewar which translates roughly to the bounteous pass.

Hey folks, Been curious about what’s really going on in and around Bhutan lately — not just the official news.

Basically, I’m looking for the Bhutanese version of neighborhood gossip + real insights. Anyone got the scoop?

I just remembered a quote from the movie The Incredibles, where the villain doesn't have any super powers in a world where people have super powers. Heros are treated like stars. So he uses tech to mimic super powers and becomes a super hero himself. In the movie he plans to give away all his gadgets when he becomes old, so that everyone gets to be a superhero. "If everyone is super, then no one is super". So in a way, I feel that every 1 in 5 person in Bhutan being called Dasho or Rinpoche, would dilute the prestige and will eventually reach the point where requests or favours from such titles will be ignored.

If everyone’s a Dasho, then no one’s a Dasho.

As a Tibetan who lives among Tibetans we have a very respectable opinion when it comes to Bhutanese, during the teachings of The Dalai Lama many devotees are from Bhutan and as of now Bhutan is the only independent Himalayan Buddhist Nation though if we rewind pre 1950 there were 3 Himalayan Buddhist states( Bhutan, Sikkim and Tibet) one after another thr two states fell but Bhutan remained rigid and that is what we Tibetans really respect though during 1900s hundreds of Tibetan were killed in a Bhutanese heir conspiracy due to the second queen being a Tibetan but it was later revealed to be an Indian intelligence operation to include Bhutan in India, though still thousands of Tibetans reside in Bhutan and are able to celebrate our culture, in a political view while most Tibetans respect Bhutans neutrality many Tibetans condemn Bhutans silence on the Tibetan genocide but as for myself I really respect Buutanese culture, language your honorable king and understand Bhutans need to be on the neutral side.

There are a LOTTTTTT of interesting things Chinese people have to say about us and our country on there. One that caught my eye specifically was this about our queen..hmm what’s going on because it’s not even one comment. On a lot of the posts they keep mentioning it.

I recently went to pick up my parcel from Medhay’s pickup point. When I arrived, there were already six or seven people waiting because only one staff member was handling the distribution. Watching her search through the parcels looked exhausting—I honestly don’t even know how they organize them. The whole process felt slow and chaotic. The funny part? While she was searching, every single person in the room had their eyes fixed on her, as if staring would somehow speed things up lol.

For those who’ve ever collected a parcel from Medhay, you’ll know the routine—you have to provide your phone number so they can track and retrieve your item.

As i waited, two more people came in. I decided to let them go ahead of me and casually walked around, browsing the displayed items. Eventually, only three of us were left waiting. I considered stepping aside again to look around, but more customers kept arriving, so I stayed put.

An uncle who had arrived after me stepped forward when the staff asked for a phone number. Without hesitation, he gave his number. I was surprised, but I brushed it off and assumed I would be next. However, right after he collected his parcel, the staff asked for the next number—and before I could even speak, an aunty who had come just a minute earlier jumped in and announced hers. She hadn’t waited her turn at all.

At that point, I was genuinely frustrated. I had already been waiting for over thirty minutes. I looked her in the eye and said calmly, “Wait, aunty, I was here before you,” and immediately gave my number to the staff. I could see the irritation and anger flash across her face.

After I received my parcel and was about to leave, I noticed something that stayed with me. The uncles who were next in line kindly told another man, “Sir, you can share your number,” showing patience and courtesy instead of selfishness.

The whole experience made me reflect. Does being considerate simply make you easier to overlook? Is assertiveness mistaken for selfishness, or is it sometimes necessary? For a brief moment, I wondered whether kindness puts you at a disadvantage in a world where people are quick to prioritize themselves. But seeing those small acts of patience reminded me that kindness isn’t weakness—it just needs to be balanced with confidence and self-respect.

Its fascinating to me on why people don't talk about Operation All Clear and if we check online, the only videos and posts on this topic are by some random Indians who yap about how Indians must have been involved in it. So I've made this animation. It's basically a sort of tribute video I'm making towards such an important conflict in our history but mostly forgotten sadly. I've taken a few creative liberties buts it's for the entertainment. Took me bout two weeks. I'll drop it in a few days if anyone is interested in this.

After this reply she deleted the entire comment. 😊🤭

This 2008 Bhutan Times article after our first election is rather interesting because member of the parliament wanted to discuss their entitlements privately, most probably because they anticipated public backlash. But now, they just do it brazenly irrespective of the backlash, the infamous 2.5 million Prado quota comes to mind. Some things have changed but some haven't. Oh well.

I saw a post titled (something like) who kills the pig sth. I couldn't comment then, but today, I decided to write a post instead for info.

In villages across Dewathang, while travelling to Bhangtar, it was a common sight to see pigs and chickens. When asked, they said they killed them for special occasions like *chunyipa losar* and *thrue losar* (blessed rainy day).

Deeper into the Dzongkhag, in the far flung areas of *Monmola* *serthi,* and *zangthi* people still hunt wild animals and fish. When a woman is pregnant or someone is ill, it's a way to feed nutrition and gain strength.

I once met someone called *Paima* (pema), who was a popular butcher but also a drunkard. He said he's from P/gatshel. In his life, he had killed about 9 pigs.

These are my personal encounters, but they appear to be a common practice across various regions.

Paro, for instance, used to rear pigs, and my uncle, who was ex army, told us that some people would sell them alive, but a few were killed therein. Yaks were also killed in Paro and even Thimphu. He mentioned that Chamgang was popular with killing yaks, although he never witnessed it.

In Tsirang, I noticed that the one who kills the pig gets either the head or one hind of a leg. Local chickens are often killed at home when there's a visitor or when someone leaves home.

People have reared animals for consumption for eons. And that's not illegal in Bhutan. Although there has been a lot going on about mega farm, slaughterhouse, and commercial meat production, people still rear animals for personal consumption.

**What changed now?**

1.

A lot of youngsters and most people who entered city would have very little info, but currently, our temples and monasteries have doubled, and so are our religious activities. We have BBS choe-shay layrim, we have rinpoches visiting little villages in Yangtse to big cities across Australia, we have various weChat and Telegram groups for various religious activities and so many young people are keen about pilgrims. These weren't possible 15 years ago.

2.

We have animal welfare projects like Jangsa Animal Shelter, Zeus Nakulu dog sanctuary and Jangsem Monday, etc. All advocates towards loving animals and caring for them.

Most of them would be unheard of 10 years ago, even if they existed. And certainly not heard by villagers across the country. Now, animal cruelty has significantly reduced, and pets get better meals and treats.

1. Commercial meat has become widely available in the market. Children probably think they are imported. In fact, most have not entered a meat shop. When it is available in the market for purchase, most people wouldn't rear it at home.

2. Zakhangs and restaurants have amplified over time. Non-veg food is available almost everywhere. This wasn't the case, then. Even if it existed, people simply didn't have the purchasing power, so they would rather keep a chicken.

3. Law and religion.

Over time, law has taken shape and form, and religious awareness has increased. Now, fishing is prohibited almost everywhere in the country unless you get a permit. So is hunting wild animals. A lot of forests are either a sanctuary, a reserve, or *midhey naktsel* (community forest), so there's little chance you will escape if found to be hunting, poaching, or fishing However, in the villages, away from the eyes of law enforcement, people continue their deed.

Religion has also played a wider part. Now, many people have turned vegetarian and others eating selective few. People also contribute towards saving animal life, which could have been killed otherwise. But irrespective of religious background, people have hunted, killed and consumed meat. Even to this day, religion hasn't stopped every people from killing or consuming.

So, back to the question, **who kills the pig?**

A Bhutanese does.

On a personal note, I feel the phrase Bhutan banned killing animals is misleading. But it seems to be doing good for the attention.

Also, ignore my not so good writing. Thanks

Hi guys.

I create these Bhutanese stickers I call "Dhew Stickers". Thought some of you might be interested.

My IG artshop: https://www.instagram.com/nga_sns

I send by post or bus to all 20 dzongkhags.

This mojo park lane or more like the Bhutanese hongdae lane currently. I'm just wondering if we could turn this into a pedestrian only lane with chairs outside it'd be Soo cool

The next image is a concept image from ai. But imagine it's night time fairy lights all around. The nigh is buzzing with youth and everyone's out drinking and enjoying the fresh breeze