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Account of Worldly Objects

Bhutan has a strong tradition of passing down objects and artefacts as hierlooms and legacies. The Bhutanese have stories of how a cherished family heirloom was produced and passed down for generations or about the supernational powers possessed by certain objects.

  • འཇིག་རྟེན་ཅ་དངོས་ལོ་རྒྱུས། (Dzongkha, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > Account of Worldly Objects (English, Latin script, Translation)
    • > 'jig rten ca dngos lo rgyus (Dzongkha, Latin script, THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > jik ten cha ngö lo gyü (Dzongkha, Latin script, THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
Subject ID: S7419