Bhutan Volume 2: The Unremembered Nation (Vol.2, Art and Ideals)

By Karma Ura

The process of modernization has brought discontinuities in collective memory. This volume and its prequel provide an act of collective remembrance, knitting together many voices and stories. It shows the readers a world of the past before modernization began in the 1960s. Volume 2 covers the monumental architecture of dzongs (castles) and administration of the country, authority and power, cosmological concepts and beliefs, religions and rites, visualization and meditation, visual arts, and folk drama that affected the daily life of the people. Some chapters also dwell on monastic life and monkhood, and Guru Rinpoche's imprints on the land and its people.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192868578
• ISBN13: 9780192868572
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages