Weaving

Weaving is the traditional to the women of eastern region. Women in the east spent their leisure time weaving  beautiful patterns of gho and kira. They spent their time weaving different patterns of clothes during their leisures time.
Although weaving is a difficult task that everyone feel and shares but they shares happy and enjoyable moment, what they strive during their free time. Thre picture below epict the way womens in east weave their shares. 

Darchen Lhakhang

Darchen Lhakhang is located in Toetsho gewog under Trashi yangtse Dzongkhag about three hours walk from Tsenkharla road point at the altitude of 2600 m above sea level. It was established by Ani Chorten Zangmo, the daughter of Tertoen Pemaling in 12th century. When Ani Chorten Zangmo lived at Shakshing hamlet where the current shakshing lhakhang stand, Ani Chorten Zangmo went for an excursion to the hill top above the shakshing and she reached at the location where current Darchen Lhakhang stands. When she reached there, she mediated for some hours and in the middle of her meditation, she saw a ferocious leopard (གཟིག) roaring to her but she offered no alarm to the leopard and carry on the meditation. Meanwhile the fierce leopard vanish and then she saw a beautiful girl with the scarf (དར) offering to her and then she disappear. Then Ani reflected the instance as the noble sign and then build a small hermitage to do mediation and she named the hermit as Darchen (Dar: Scarf and Chen: Leopard) as interrelated to the incident Ani came across.

Then Later during the reign of Jangphu Dungpa during first king renovated the ruin hermit into the temple which we can see today. The main relic of the temple is a copper bowl (Therpo) believe to be the butter lamp of eternity (Kapai Marmi) found and excavated from the place where the present Lake (Phurpa Lha Tsho) positions which is few distance away on the north of Darchen Lhakhang. Beside the old and significant relics inside the temple one can also able witness many important Nyes along the mountain ridges. We can also grasp three magnificent lakes two in the north of the temple (Yab Karpo Tsho and Phurpa Lha Tsho) and one in the south of the temples (Yum Marpo Tsho). The current caretaker of the temple is Mr. Kabula from shakshing under Khamdang geog.

The temple is given access to all the modern amenities like mobile connectivity and electricity except road connection, the temple is well known across the eastern Bhutan because of its sacredness. 

Yum Marpo Lake

Shakshing Lhakhang on the way to Darchen Lhakhang

Darchen Lhakhang

Yab Karpo Lake

Kanjur Lhakhang on the way to Darchen

Ugyenling Lhakhang on the way to Darchen

Story of Dungkar Thang:

Dungkar Thang a beautiful place located few meters away from Doksum town toward Gomphu  Kora on the high way of Trashi Yangtse to Tashigang and on the side of Drangmi chu has beautiful story and we can also see two Dungkar(Conch) on the rock cliff opposite of Dungkar Thang other side of Drangmi chu.

The two Conch

It was said that at present location so called Dungkar Thang, there was a mortar made up of stone and inhabitants there had been using that stone mortar to husk the paddy. When people pound one bowl (བྲེ) of paddy, they used to get exactly one bowl (བྲེ) of rice. It was such blessing for the locality. As days passed by there was one man out of his cruel mind wants to own the stone mortar for himself. When he topple the stone mortar he saw two Dungkar (Conch) flew from the bottom of stone mortar and rested on the rock cliff other side of the present place called Dungkar Thang. Now a days on that site you will see some settlement which are occupied by the Public Work Division (PWD) workers. The Dungkar (Conch) which was rested on the cliff can be still seen from the road which is passed through Dungkar Thang. The name of the place inborn from that episode and is called as Dungkar Thang (Dungkar: Conch and Thang: Ground). 

Reflection on the first two days workshop on class X ICT Orientation curriculum

The first two days of the workshop for the Orientation on new ICT curriculum for class Ten was begun by welcoming the participants by the lead trainer and the co-trainer and gracing the opening session of the workshop by introducing each others. The important highlight of the first day was, how importance ICT in this 21st century survival. In the first day session we were taken through the topics like google classroom and its importance, benefits of google classroom, ICT curriculum framework before lunch during first two sessions of the day.

After Lunch in third and fourth session we were familiarized with the textbook organization of class Ten ICT textbook, google docs and its importance and usages. From these topics, I was fascinated by using the google classroom and google docs topic and I came to know that the importance of using google classroom platform and google docs. The first day end successfully with closing note by the trainer with full of hopes and knowledge.

The next day it was new year and new beginning of year 2020 and our session started by wishing Happy New Year and also some of our colleagues shared their new year with the participants. We begin the session with full joy and enthusiasm. During the second day we covered the topics such as Blogging and its benefit, Digital Citizenship and its potential opportunities and risk and then we are taken through HTML5 and CSS3. My take away from the second day session was instilling the sense of responsibility, educating our youth in using ICT facilities was the most importance things as we live in this 21st century word. The day was successful with the brain full of new knowledge and ideas instill by our competent trainer.

Stone Bowl of Khamdang, Trashi Yangtse

Stone Bowl at Khamdang

Khamdang village located in khamdang geog under Trashi Yangtse Dzongkhag which is on the sheer slope ridge. Its hold the old trail that connects Doksom to Trashi Yangste and Trashi Yangtse to the other parts of the region. If you want to travel from Doksum to khamdang on foot, you need to take an old track to reach your destination. The trail was the main route that was used by the upper part of Trashi Yangtse which passes through khamdang to reach other parts of Bhutan. When people start their journey from Doksum to Trashi Yangtse one need to hike the steep route through Khamdang. Moreover, as we can see these days also the scarcity of water in the locality make traveler difficult to pace their journey uphill to reached Shalli villge. They will get water only when they reached to Shalli.

During that time, there lived a powerful and wealthy man called Khamdang Leki Samdrup, who lived in khamdang. As a powerful and wealthy man in the locality and sighted the suffering and difficulties faced by the traveler, he took a generous resolution to keep locally fermented wine (བང་ཆང་།) on the trail. Then he made a stone bowl to store the fermented wine so that passers-by can have they share of drink to quench their thirst. His sympathetic effort has benefited and help thousands of traveler to gain energy and to quench their thirst, but as good action is always followed by bad, the trader who took the same route poison the fermented wine bowl and found dead whoever drink the wine from the bowl. From there onwards he discontinue keeping the fermented wine in the bowl and it was a loss for other traveler who took the trail in the later part.  

Today, if you wants to see the stone Bowl, you need to take an old trail either to reached Khamdang or Doksum from either side and when you reach near Jarung Khashor Chorten (now it is ruin) you will be able to see that stone bowl used to stored fermented wine by Khandang Leki Samdrup.