Trashiyangtse District ( dz, བཀྲ་ཤིས་གཡང་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་, bkra shis g.yang rtse rdzong khag) is one of the twenty
dzongkhag
The Kingdom of Bhutan is divided into 20 districts ( Dzongkha: ). Bhutan is located between the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and India on the eastern slopes of the Himalayas in South Asia.
are the primary subdivisions of Bhutan. They ...
s (districts) comprising
Bhutan. It was created in 1992 when Trashiyangtse district was split off from
Trashigang District
Trashigang District ( Dzongkha: བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bkra-shis-sgang rdzong-khag''; also spelled "Tashigang") is Bhutan's easternmost dzongkhag (district).
Culture
The population of the district ...
. Trashiyangtse covers an area of . At an elevation of 1750–1880 m, Trashi yangtse dzongkhag is rich of culture filled with sacred places blessed by
Guru Rimpoche
Padmasambhava ("Born from a Lotus"), also known as Guru Rinpoche (Precious Guru) and the Lotus from Oḍḍiyāna, was a tantric Buddhist Vajra master from India who may have taught Vajrayana in Tibet (circa 8th – 9th centuries)... According ...
and dwelled by Yangtseps, Tshanglas, Bramis from Tawang, Khengpas from Zhemgang and Kurtoeps from Lhuentse.
Trashiyangtse was named by Terton
Pema Lingpa during his visit in 15th century meaning; (the fortress of the auspicious fortune).
The northern part of Trashiyangtse encompasses the skills of woodturning and paper making(
dzongkha
Dzongkha (; ) is a Sino-Tibetan language that is the official and national language of Bhutan. It is written using the Tibetan script.
The word means "the language of the fortress", from ' "fortress" and ' "language". , Dzongkha had 171,080 n ...
: དལ་ཤོག). Southern part mainly depends on cash crops and animals.
The district seat is
Trashiyangtse.
Languages
Three major languages are spoken in Trashiyangtse. In the north, including
Bumdeling inhabitants speak
Dzala. In the south,
Tshangla (Sharchopkha), the ''lingua franca'' of eastern Bhutan, is spoken in
Jamkhar,
Khamdang,
Yalang and
Ramjar Gewog
Ramjar Gewog (Dzongkha: རམ་སྦྱར་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashiyangtse District, Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South ...
s. In
Tomzhangtshen Gewog, residents speak
Chocha Ngacha and
khengkha
The Khengkha language (Dzongkha ྨཕགལཔམཕ), or Kheng, is an East Bodish language spoken by ~40,000 native speakers worldwide, in the Zhemgang, Trongsa, and Mongar districts of south–central Bhutan.
Classification
Khengkha is a di ...
.
Administrative divisions
Trashiyangste District is divided into eight village blocks (or ''
gewogs''):
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Bumdeling Gewog
Bumdeling Gewog ( Dzongkha: བུམ་སྡེ་གླིང་) (sometimes spelt Bomdeling) is a gewog (village block) of Trashiyangtse District, Bhutan
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Jamkhar Gewog
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Khamdang Gewog
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Ramjar Gewog
Ramjar Gewog (Dzongkha: རམ་སྦྱར་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashiyangtse District, Bhutan
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Toetsho Gewog
Toetsho Gewog (Dzongkha: སྟོད་མཚོ་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashiyangtse District, Bhutan
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Tomzhangtshen Gewog
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Trashiyangtse Gewog
Yangtse Gewog (Dzongkha: གཡང་རྩེ་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashiyangtse District, Bhutan
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Yalang Gewog
Yalang Gewog (Dzongkha: ཡ་ལང་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashiyangtse District, Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It ...
Protected areas
Trashiyangtse District contains Kholong Chu Wildlife Sanctuary, established in 1993, itself part of the larger
Bumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary. Bumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary currently covers the northern half of Trashiyangtse (the ''gewogs'' of
Bumdeling and
Yangste), as well as substantial portions of neighboring districts.
See also
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Districts of Bhutan
The Kingdom of Bhutan is divided into 20 districts ( Dzongkha: ). Bhutan is located between the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and India on the eastern slopes of the Himalayas in South Asia.
are the primary subdivisions of Bhutan. They p ...
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Kurtoed Province
References
External links
*Trashiyangtse dzongkhag administration website
Districts of Bhutan
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