280 Folk Songs of Bhutan

&+, Centre for Bhutan Studies & GNH

280 Folksongs of Bhutan

Compiled by Kunzang Tobgyel & Mani Dorji

Volume I

&+,

Centre for Bhutan Studies & GNH

280 Folk Songs of Bhutan

Copyright 1985 by Royal Government of Bhutan 2017 by Centre for Bhutan Studies

First published by

The Department of Education Royal Government of Bhutan

This edition was e-published in 2017 by the Centre for Bhutan Studies for wider circlation and dissemination to the Bhutanese readers. If you find any typological erors, please contact us at

cbs@bhutanstudies.org.bt.

ISBN 978-99936-14-94-4

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Preface

This book contains two hundred and eighty folk songs gathered from various places in the land of the Dragon, Bhutan. Two eminent scholars, Lopen Nado and Dasho Lam Sangnak, have kindly consented to check the content of these songs and to write a preface. In a second volume, Kunzang Tobgyal and Mani Dorji want to gather more songs, which will be presented according to their origin in the sixteen [now twenty] districts of Bhutan, and to the kind of celebration with which they are related, such as marriage, new year, consecration of a house, archery, and so forth.

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