སྐྱབས་རྗེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཁྲི་རབས་༧༠པ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་འཇིགས་མེད་ཆོས་གྲགས་མཆོག་གི་ཞབས་བརྟན་བཞུགས་སོ། 𝐀 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐊𝐲𝐚𝐛𝐣𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟕𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐞 𝐊𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐩𝐨 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐤𝐮 𝐉𝐢𝐠𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐤. ཨོཾ་སྭསྟི། Om svasti. རྒྱལ་ཀུན་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་ཆུ་གཏེར་ལས་བལྟམས་པའི། Born from the oceanic treasury of the compassion of all the Victorious Ones, གསང་གསུམ་མཛད་འཕྲིན་སྟོན་ཟླའི་འོད་སྟོང་གིས། With the thousand radiant beams of the moon like enlightened activities of the three secrets, ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཀུ་མུཏ་འཛུམ་རྒྱ་འགྲོལ་མཛད་པ། Who causes the kumuda lotuses of the Buddha’s teachings to open and fully blossom, ངག་དབང་འཇིགས་མེད་ཆོས་གྲགས་ཞབས་བརྟན་གསོལ། We pray for the firm and enduring life of Ngawang Jigme Chodrak. མདོ་སྔགས་ཆོས་ཚུལ་ཟབ་ཅིང་རྒྱ་ཆེའི་བཅུད། The essence of the profound and vast Dharma of sutra and mantra, སྨིན་གྲོལ་བསྐྱེད་རྫོགས་གདམས་པའི་ཟིལ་དངར་རྒྱུན། The continuous, nectar like stream of instructions on ripening and liberation, and the generation and completi...

𝗞𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗽𝗼 𝗬o𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗚o𝗻𝗽𝗼 𝗮𝗸𝗮 𝗝𝗶𝗴𝗺𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗺𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗻 𝗬o𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗚o𝗻𝗽𝗼 𝗼𝗿 𝗞𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗽𝗼 𝗚o𝗻𝗿𝗶 (𝟭𝟴𝟵𝟵–𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟵)(past). 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗞𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗽𝗼 𝗝𝗶𝗴𝗺𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗚𝗼𝗻𝗽𝗼 was one of the greatest Dzogchen masters in recent times, and was said to be the joint emanation of Jetsun Senge Wangshuk, Jigme Lingpa and Migyur Namkhe Dorje. He was commonly considered to be an incarnation of the primordial Buddha Samantrabhadra. Born in 1899, Khenpo Jigme Yonten Gonpo studied with many great masters including HE Fifth Dzogchen Rinpoche Tupten Choki Dorje, Great Khenpo of Jagong Shenpen Nangwa, Shadral Kunga Palden, and many more. He received teachings on sutra, tantra and the general sciences, but most importantly Khenpo received all the empowerments, guidance and personal instructions of the Heart Essence of the Great Perfection and became the most important realised lineage holder of his day. From the throne of Shirasing Buddhist College, he taught extensively on...

This National Day is especially meaningful as we celebrate the 70th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, at a time when, in the nearly twenty years of my own reign, we are engaged in a national endeavour of profound significance which will shape the future of Bhutan. I am honoured to mark this occasion here in Bumthang, a sacred land blessed by Guru Rinpoche and Longchenpa, the birthplace of Pema Lingpa, and the ancestral home of the Wangchuck dynasty. I speak to you today from the grounds of Wangduechhoeling Palace, built by Jigme Namgyel, where Gongsar Ugyen Wangchuck was born. There couldn’t have been a more fitting place to honour our forefathers and to reaffirm our pledge to serve Bhutan with courage, determination, and unwavering dedication. To all Bhutanese watching the celebrations, you are in our hearts wherever you are. As we all know, the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is of extraordinary importance for Bhutan’s prosperous future. I would like to share up...

The Impact of Removing the Class 10 Cut-Off Point Students in Class 10 progressing without a cut-off point can expand access to education but also raise concerns about quality and preparedness. Global research shows both positive and negative impacts of such policies. The decision to waive the cut-off point for Class 10 students—allowing all who pass to progress into higher secondary education—has been debated globally. Countries such as Bhutan have experimented with this policy to promote equitable access to education. While the move aligns with international goals of inclusivity and universal secondary education, research highlights both positive impacts (greater access, reduced stress, equity) and negative consequences (quality dilution, resource strain, employability challenges) The Bhutanese voiceofresearch.org Asia News Network . Positive Impacts Equitable Access to Education Removing the cut-off point ensures that students from disadvantaged bac...

⏰  Ticking Toward Triumph: A Tale of Timely Kindness Time—a silent observer, yet the mightiest force in the theater of exams. I vividly recall the day I stood as an invigilator in the solemn stillness of the Mid-Term Examination hall. Above us loomed two majestic wall clocks, their hands sweeping with quiet authority. In that crucible of logical reasoning, linguistic precision, and data interpretation, every second was a sentinel guarding success or failure. Ironically, on a day when time meant everything, I found myself without a wristwatch. Three hours of cerebral combat lay ahead, but no means to divide my focus. Then entered an unexpected miracle—an act of generosity from someone I had never met in person. My dear online friend, Paeldon, offered her Apple digital watch without hesitation. Though our paths hadn’t crossed in the physical world, she arranged to have her watch delivered to the gatekeeper just in time for my exam. With that watch wrapped around my wrist, I strode i...

  Action Research Proposal Framework Title of the Study Should reflect the intervention and the target group clearly (e.g., Enhancing Dzongkha Literature Comprehension through Peer Collaboration in Grade 11 ). Background and Rationale Briefly describe the context (school, students, subjects). Explain why this research is necessary—highlight challenges, gaps, or observations. Problem Statement Clearly define the issue you aim to address. Support it with data, observation, or stakeholder feedback if available. Objectives of the Study What do you hope to achieve? (e.g., improve reading comprehension, boost student engagement). Research Question(s) State your central action research question. Example: How can collaborative reading strategies improve Dzongkha comprehension among science students? Review of Related Literature Summarize key studies or theories that support your intervention. Relate them directly to your proposed strategy or issue. Methodology Design : Action research (cyc...

  The Power of the Chenrezig Mantra: Om Mani Padme Hum Each syllable of the Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara) mantra — Om Mani Padme Hum —carries profound meaning and transformative energy, guiding practitioners toward compassion, wisdom, and enlightenment. Om (ཨོཾ) – Represents the purity of body, speech, and mind, elevating consciousness beyond material distractions. Ma (མ) – Symbolizes love and ethics, dissolving attachment and selfish desires. Ni (ཎི) – Embodies patience, removing hatred and anger, nurturing inner peace. Pad (པད) – Signifies diligence, overcoming laziness and fostering spiritual effort. Me (མེ) – Represents concentration, eliminating mental distractions and achieving clarity. Hum (ཧཱུྃ) – Symbolizes wisdom, merging knowledge and compassion into ultimate enlightenment. Reciting this sacred mantra invokes the compassion of Avalokiteshvara , the Bodhisattva of Mercy. It is a powerful path to purifying negativity, generating loving-kindness, and embracing universal...

  Mastering Inner Peace: Overcoming Unconditional Frustrations 1. Acknowledge Your Emotions Without Judgment. Frustration often arises when things don’t go as expected, leaving us feeling powerless. The first step to handling unconditional frustration is to acknowledge your feelings instead of suppressing them. Accept that frustration is a natural response and remind yourself that emotions are temporary. When you recognize frustration without judgment, you give yourself the space to process and move forward rather than getting stuck in negativity. 2. Shift Your Perspective and Reframe the Situation.    Frustration usually stems from unmet expectations. Instead of dwelling on what went wrong, reframe the situation by looking for opportunities. Ask yourself: "What can I learn from this?" or "Is this truly a setback or just a redirection?" By shifting your mindset, you transform frustration into growth. Every challenge carries a lesson, and adopting a flexible persp...

✍ ༄༅། ། རྟགས་འཇུག་གི་སྙིང་པོ་དཀའ་གནད་གསལ་བའི་མེ་ལོང་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།།  ན་མོ་མཉྫུ་ཤྲི་ཡེ།   རྒྱལ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་དཔྱིད།།   གཞོན་ནུའི་གཟུགས་ཀྱིས་རྣམ་རོལ་བ།།   རྗེ་བཙུན་བརྟན་པའི་འཁོར་ལོ་དང༌།།   དབྱེར་མེད་བླ་མའི་ཞབས་བཏུད་ནས།།   མཁས་མཆོག་ཐོན་མིའི་ཐུགས་མཚོ་ལས།།   བྱུང་བའི་བརྡ་སྤྲོད་ཕྱི་མོ་མཆོག།   རྟགས་ཀྱི་འཇུག་པའི་སྙིང་པོའི་དོན།།   མདོར་བསྡུས་ཚིག་གིས་གསལ་བར་བྱ།།   སྤྱིར་ན་དབྱངས་མོ་གསལ་བྱེད་ཕོ།།དེ་ཕྱིར་ཀ་ལི་སུམ་ཅུ་པོ།།   ཕོ་ཡི་ཡི་གེ་འབའ་ཞིག་ལ།།   ནང་གསེས་སྡེ་ཚན་ལྔར་དབྱེ་སྟེ།།   ཀ་ཅ་ཏ་པ་ཙ་རྣམས་ཕོ།།   ཁ་ཆ་ཐ་ཕ་ཚ་མ་ནིང༌།།   ག་ཇ་ད་བ་ཛ་ཝ་ཞ།།   ཟ་འ་ཡ་ཤ་ས་རྣམས་མོ།།   ང་ཉ་ན་མ་ཤིན་ཏུ་མོ།།   ར་ལ་ཧ་ཨ་མོ་གཤམ་སྟེ།།   ཨ་ནི་མཚན་མེད་ཅེས་ཀྱང་བྱ།།   སྔོན་འཇུག་ལྔ་ཡི་བ་ཡིག་ཕོ།།   ག་ད་མ་ནིང་འ་མོ་ཡིག།   མ་ནི་ཤིན་ཏུ་མོ་ཡིན་ནོ།།   དེ་རྣམས་གང་ལ་གང་འཇུག་ན།།   ཕོ་ཡིག་བ་ནི་ཀ་ཅ་ཏ།།   ཙ་ག་ང་ཇ་ཉ་ད་ན།།   ཛ་ཞ་ཟ་ར་ཤ་སར་འཇུག།   མ་ནིང་ག་ནི་ཅ་ཏ་ཙ།།   ཉ་ད་ན་ཞ་ཟ་ཡ་ཤ།   སར་འཇུག་མ་ནིང་...