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Wangdue Phodrang dzong, for instance, is set upon a spur overlooking the confluence of the Puna Chhu and Tang Chhu rivers thus blocking any attacks by southern invaders who attempted to use a river route to bypass the trackless slopes of the middle Himalayas in attacking central Bhutan.
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Wangdue and Phodrang
In time, however, the State Council became increasingly secular as did the successive Druk Desi, ponlop, and dzongpon, and intense rivalries developed among the ponlop of Tongsa and Paro and the dzongpon of Punakha, Thimphu, and Wangdue Phodrang.
Dzong at Wangdue Phodrang, Bhutan.
Location of Wangdue Phodrang dzongkhag within Bhutan
Wangdue Phodrang District ( Dzongkha: དབང ་ འད ུ ས ་ ཕ ོ་ བ ྲ ང ་ ར ྫོ ང ་ ཁག ་; Wylie: Dbang -' dus Pho-brang rdzong-khag ; previously spelled " Wangdi Phodrang ") is a dzongkhag ( district ) of central Bhutan.
Wangdue Phodrang is bordered by Dagana and Tsirang dzongkhags to the south, Tongsa dzongkhag to the east, Thimphu and Punakha dzongkhag to the west, and Gasa dzongkhag and a small section of border with Tibet to the north.
Dzong at Wangdue Phodrang, Bhutan.
An historic dzong built by Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal in 1638 was located at Wangdue Phodrang.
Buddhist novices in Wangdue Phodrang Dzong, Bhutan
The dominant language in Wangdue Phodrang is Dzongkha, the national language, spoken in the western two-thirds of the district.
Along the same border, in central Wangdue Phodrang, inhabitants speak Nyenkha.
In southeast Wangdue Phodrang, remnants of the autochthonous ' Olekha ( Black Mountain Monpa ) speaking community barely survive.
There are three paved roads in Wangdue Phodrang dzongkhag.
The Lateral Road enters from the west at Dochu La Pass, crosses the Sankosh ( Puna Tsang Chhu ) at Wangdue Phodrang dzong, and continues east to Tongsa.
One spur road heads north from Wangdue Phodrang to the dzong at Punakha and slightly beyond.
Wangdue Phodrang is divided into 15 gewogs:
Most of Wangdue Phodrang is environmentally protected.
* Wangdue Phodrang Province
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Wangdue and for
The highway running south from Wangdue Phodrang to Dagana follows the river for much of its course.
Wangdue and is
Southeastern Wangdue ( Athang, Phobji Gewogs ) is part of Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park.
Gasa is bordered to the north by Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China and by Thimphu, Punakha, and Wangdue Phodrang dzongkhags to the south.
It is bordered by Thimphu, Gasa, and Wangdue Phodrang Districts.
In Bhutan, it is known as the Puna Tsang Chu below the confluences of several tributaries near the town of Wangdue Phodrang.
At Wangdue Phodrang, ( altitude 1364 m ), the river is joined by the west flowing Dang Chhu and it enters a precipitous gorge.
Wangdue and spur
A second spur departs the Lateral Road near the Pele La pass halfway between Wangdue and Tongsa, traveling south a short distance to Gangteng Monastery and the Phobjika valley where the rare black-necked cranes ( grus nigricollis ) may be found.
Wangdue and Puna
The combined streams are then joined by the Dang Chhu near the town of Wangdue Phodrang, and the name of the river becomes the Puna Tsang Chhu.
Wangdue and .
In addition to his position as Je Khenpo, he was recognized as the trulku of Nyizergang, the seat of the terton Woogpa Lingpa, in Wangdue Phodrang province.
Phodrang and is
Simtokha Dzong, known as Sangak Zabdhon Phodrang ( Palace of the Profound Meaning of Secret Mantras ) is said to be the oldest surviving fortress cum monastery established in 1629 by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, who unified Bhutan.
The Buddha Dordenma is a bronze statue, a ' Vajra Throne ' Buddha, that is under construction amidst the ruins of Kuensel Phodrang, overlooking Thimphu city, about above the Wang Chuu river bed.
Sakya Trizin is head of the Dolma Phodrang.
Jigdal Dagchen Sakya ( b. 1929 ) is the head of the Phuntsok Phodrang, and lives in Seattle, Washington, where he co-founded Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism with Dezhung Rinpoche III, and constructed the first Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in the United States.
The Buddha Dordenma is sited amidst the ruins of Kuensel Phodrang, the palace of Sherab Wangchuck, the thirteenth Desi Druk, overlooking the southern approach to Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan.
Phodrang and by
The estate of the Dalai Lamas at Drepung monastery, called Ganden Phodrang, had been constructed in 1518 by Gendun Gyatso Palzangpo ( 1476 – 1541 ), retrospectively named and counted as 2nd Dalai Lama.
Phodrang and .
The most prominent architecturally elegant, traditional Bhutanese building structures in Thimphu are the Tashichho Dzong, Drubthob Goemba ( now the Zilluka nunnery ), Tango Goempa or Cheri Goempa, the Memorial Chorten, Thimphu, Dechen Phodrang, and Changangkha Lhakhang, all vintage monuments with rich history.
Monks at Dechen Phodrang Monastery | Dechen Phodrang.
The Ducho sub-dynasty of Sakya survives split into two palaces, the Dolma Phodrang and Phuntsok Phodrang.
The word " wangdue " means unification of Country, and " Phodrang " means Palace in Dzongkha.
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