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Paro District
Paro District (Dzongkha: སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག) is one of the twenty dzongkhags of Bhutan, located in the western part of the country. Home to Bhutan's only international airport and some of the kingdom's most iconic landmarks including the Tiger's Nest monastery, Paro is one of the most historically significant and economically important districts in the nation.
Dopshari Gewog
Dopshari Gewog is a gewog in Paro District, western Bhutan, occupying the valley between central Paro and Paro International Airport. It is home to Jangtsa Dumtseg Lhakhang, a 15th-century temple in chorten form built by the iron-bridge builder Thangtong Gyalpo.
Sacred Sites of Phajo Drugom Zhigpo
The Sacred Sites associated with Phajo Drugom Zhigpo and his descendants are a network of seventeen religious sites across western Bhutan, inscribed on UNESCO's Tentative List in 2012. Spanning the districts of Thimphu, Paro, Punakha, and Gasa, these sites include meditation caves, cliff hermitages, temples, and monasteries linked to the 13th-century lama who established the Drukpa Kagyu school in Bhutan.
Druk Choeding Temple
Druk Choeding Lhakhang is a 16th-century temple in the heart of Paro town, built by Lama Ngawang Chhogyal in 1525. It served as the first residence of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal when he arrived in Paro and houses sacred relics including a Jowo Jampa statue.
Paro Penlop
The Paro Penlop (སྤ་རོ་དཔོན་སློབ་) was the governor of western Bhutan under the pre-1907 dual system of government. Seated at Rinpung Dzong and drawing its wealth from the trade corridor to Tibet and Bengal, the office was for most of the 18th and 19th centuries the main rival to the Trongsa Penlop, and its defeat in the civil wars of 1882–1885 cleared the way for the founding of the Wangchuck monarchy.
Wangchang Gewog
Wangchang Gewog is a prosperous agricultural gewog in Paro District, western Bhutan. Located centrally within the dzongkhag and adjacent to the Paro College of Education, it covers 34.2 square kilometres of rice paddies, apple orchards, and forested hillsides at elevations between 2,200 and 2,340 metres.
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