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Animal Story

It is very common to find a folklores in Bhutan about animals and birds. The stories of animals and birds range from some explaining the physical features and behaviours of animals, some explaining human-animal relationship, some in which animals are used as mere analogies for human behaviours and some stories about animals with a moral message. In most animal and bird stories, the animals and birds talk like human beings.

  • སེམས་ཅན་གྱི་སྲུང་། (Dzongkha, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > Animal Story (English, Latin script, Translation)
    • > sems can gyi srung (Dzongkha, Latin script, THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > sem chen gyi sung (Dzongkha, Latin script, THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
Subject ID: S7797