Dramitse (also Dametsi or Drametse) is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

Drametse Gewog Drametse Gewog (Dzongkha: དགྲ་མེད་རྩེ་) is a gewog (village block) of Mongar District, Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country i ...

in the east part of

Mongar District Mongar District ( Dzongkha: མོང་སྒར་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Mong-sgar rdzong-khag'') is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. Mongar is the fastest-developing dzongkhag in eastern Bhutan. A regional ...

, Eastern

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...

. At the 2005 census, its population was 541. It is situated on a hill opposite the town of

Trashigang Trashigang ( dz, བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་།), or Tashigang, meaning "fortress of auspicious mount," is a town in eastern Bhutan and the district capital of the Trashigang Dzongkhag (district). The town lies to the east side of the ...

. The town is the location of Dramitse Monastery, which is the home of the

Drametse Ngacham The Drametse Ngacham (meaning "mask dance of the drums from Drametse", ''nga'' means "drum" and ''cham'' means "mask dance") is a sacred dance performed in the village of Drametse in eastern Bhutan. It is performed twice a year during the Drametse ...

or "Drum Dance" originated by Lama Kunga Gyaltsen, and the seat in Bhutan of Peling Sungtrul, who is revered as the speech incarnation of

Pema Lingpa Pema Lingpa or Padma Lingpa (, 1450–1521) was a Bhutanese saint and siddha of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. He is considered a ''terchen'' or "preeminent tertön" (, discoverer of spiritual treasures) and is considered to be foremost ...

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