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Samtse District
Samtse District (Dzongkha: བསམ་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག) is one of the twenty dzongkhags of Bhutan, located in the southwestern corner of the country along the border with the Indian states of West Bengal and Sikkim. It is one of the largest and most populous districts in Bhutan, with a diverse population and an economy centred on agriculture, cross-border trade, and industrial development.
Gangteng Tulku Rinpoche (9th)
The 9th Gangteng Tulku Rinpoche, Kunzang Rigdzin Pema Namgyal (born 1955), is the supreme head of the Nyingma lineage in Bhutan and a recognized Dzogchen master. As the ninth successive body emanation of the great treasure revealer Pema Lingpa, he is the primary holder of the Pema Lingpa lineage and the abbot of Gangteng Monastery in the Phobjikha Valley.
Michael Aris
Michael Vaillancourt Aris (1946-1999) was a British historian and scholar of Bhutanese, Tibetan, and Himalayan culture who spent six years as a private tutor to the children of the Bhutanese royal family. He pioneered Himalayan studies at the University of Oxford and was married to Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader.
Renaming of Places in Southern Bhutan
Between the 1950s and late 1990s, the Royal Government of Bhutan systematically renamed districts, towns, gewogs, and villages across southern Bhutan from their historical Nepali-origin names to Dzongkha names. Human rights organizations and refugee communities have characterized the renaming as part of a broader pattern of cultural erasure targeting the Lhotshampa population, while the Bhutanese government has framed parts of the process as linguistic standardization.
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