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མཁས་གྲུབ་ཆེན་པོ་བླ་མ་སྨོན་ལམ་རབ་བཟང་གི་མཛད་རྣམ༏

"The Biography of Lama Monlam Rabzang" - In Dzongkha Language

By; Dorji Gyelsten

ISBN 978-99936-17-11-2

The book on life and works of Lama Monlam Rabzang was released coinciding with the National Day on 17th December, 2010 by the Hon’ble Lyonpo Minjur Dorji, Minister of Home and Cultural Affairs in an award ceremony to honour the veteran Bhutanese singers organized by Music of Bhutan Research Centre. The book deals with the life and works of Lama Monlam Rabzang (1878-1945), a learned and renowned Bhutanese Buddhist master. He was born at Tshangkha (Tangsibi) in Trongsa in 1878. At his young age, he joined Trongsa and Wangdi Dratshangs, and after having attended upon a number of spiritual masters such as the fifth Zhabdrung Thuktrul Jigme Choegyal, he became erudite artist and sculptor. While he was Kyilkhor Lopon at Trongsa Dratshang, he concurrently served at the royal court of the first king Gongsa Ugyen Wangchuck as master painter and sculptor during which he carried out numerous painting works at Lami Gonpa, Jampa Lhakhang and Kurje Lhakhang in Bumthang as well as at Trongsa Dzong.

Published by The National Library of Bhutan, 2010.

Paperback, 2010, pp. 279

	Life of King Sindha The Clear Mirror Of Predictions Compiled and Edited by; Yonten Dargye ISBN 978-99936-17-10-5 This book is a breif account of the activites of an exiled Indian king, known as King Sindha, a patron of Padmasambhava, who is said to have been the founder of a short-lived kingdom in Bumthang. While the content and the nature of this famous story suggest that it is purely legendary, they also give the impression of being rooted in historical fact, thus shedding light on the history of early Bumthang, and the visit of Padmasambhava, and consequent introduction of Tantric Buddhism which took root and spread from there to other areas. Published by The National Library of Bhutan, 2009. Paperback, 2009, pp. 194 price in Bhutan Nu. 395/-
	Play of the Omniscient Life and Works of Jamgoin Ngawang Gyaltshen (17^th to 18^th Century) by Yonten Dargye, P. K. Sørensen with Gyonpo Tshering Paperback, 2008, 294pp ISBN 99936-17-06-7 A book on biography of Jamgon Ngawang Gyaltshen(1647-1732) whose legacy has proved enduring in numerous fields relating to religious arts, crafts and ritual practies in Bhutan. Its an elegantly written narrative by the accomplished biographer, Sakya Rinchen, and the content of the English translation has been rearranged by the authors of this book. For more information please refer the link: Book Reviewed by Kuensel Published by The National Library of Bhutan, 2008. price in Bhutan Nu. 500/-
	བླ་མ་བྱང་ཆུབ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་ཀྱི་བཀའ་འབུམ་ལས༏ དཔལ་ལྡན་བླ་མའི་མན་ངག་སེམས་ཉེད་ཆོས་སྐུའི་ངོ་སྤྲོད་ཕྱག་རྫོགས་གྱི་མན་ངག་གཅིག་ཏུ་བསྡུས་པ་ བདུད་རྩིའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ༏ ༏ Paperback, 2008, 125pp ISBN 99936-17-09-1 in Chöké Published by The National Library of Bhutan, 2008.
	འདས་པའི་དུས་རབས་ཀྱི་མེ་ལོང་དང་མ་འོངས་བའི་འབྲེལ་ཟམ༏ Written Treasures of Bhutan Mirror of the Past and Bridge to Future Paperback, 2008 ISBN 99936-17-08-3 Published by The National Library of Bhutan, 2008.
	འབྲུག་ཆོས་སྲིད་ཀྱི་རབས། 'brug chos srid kyi rabs A history of Bhutan — in Dzongkha by Dasho Phuntso Wangdu ISBN 99936-17-04-0 Paperback, 2007, pp. 250 price in Bhutan Nu. 250
	The Biography of Pha 'Brug-sgom Zhig-po called The Current of Compassion by Yonten Dargye & P. K. Sørensen foreword by Lyonpo Thinley Gyamtsho Paperback, 2001, 118pp ISBN 9993617008 The Biography of Phajo Drugom Zhigpo is presented here for the first time in an English rendition. A true pioneer destined to pave the way for the dissemination of the Drukpa teachings in the Southern Lands - the former name for Bhutan - the compelling story of his advent in Bhutan and his ultimate triumph over his religious adverseries portrays a strong and charismatic personality. This 13th century ascetic and his numerous descedants played a significant religious and political role in turning Bhutan into a flourishing stronghold for the Drukpa order. Published by The National Library of Bhutan, 2001. price in Bhutan Nu. 250/- National Library Reference: NLB006.
	History of the Drukpa Kagyud School in Bhutan (12^th to 17^th Century) by Yonten Dargye Paperback, 2001, 228pp ISBN 9993661600 A pioneering study of the established school of Mahayana Buddhism in Bhutan, tracing the early history diffusion and development of the Drukpa Kagyu school in the country. This work makes a significant contribution to the study of Tibeto-Bhutanese cultural intercourse during the 12th to 14th century, which suggests that Tibet and Bhutan enjoyed close cultural relations in the pre-modern era but also encountered frequent political conflicts. This does not mean that Bhutanese and Tibetans share the same cultural identity. Indeed the Bhutanese fought five wars with Tibet mostly to defend their seperate identity and territory. Published 2001. price in Bhutan Nu. 250/- National Library Reference: NLBXXX.
	སྒྲིག་ལམ་རྣམ་གཞག་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ཐངས། Driglam Namzhag (Bhutanese Etiquette): A Manual In Dzongkha with English Translation compiled by: Gangkar Wangdue translated by: Yonten Dargye Paperback, 1999, 320 pp with illustrations price in Bhutan Nu. 200/-
	སྒྲིག་ལམ་རྣམ་གཞག་གི་དེབ་ཐེར་ནོར་བུའི་འཕྲེང་བ། sgrigs lam rnam gzhag gi deb ther nor bu'i 'phreng ba A book on Bhutanese formal etiquette — in Dzongkha only. Paperback, 1999, 452 pp price in Bhutan Nu. 205/-
	གཟུངས་འབུལ་མཐོང་བས་ཤེས་པ། gzungs 'bul mthong bas shes pa Khenpo Phuntsok Tashi A book on inserting dharini and relics in sacred images for consecration. With numerous illustrations and examples of the most important dharini (gzungs). in Dzongkha / Chöké Published by The National Library of Bhutan, 1998. Hardcover, National Library Reference: NLB 001 price in Bhutan Nu. 250/-