Buddhist studies in Bhutan, it’s past and present. Pema Wangchuk. Department of Indo-Tibetan Studies, Visva-Bharati University, Email- pee.wangs@yahoo.com The name 'Bhutan' appears to derive from the Sanskrit 'Bhotant' meaning 'the end of Tibet' or from 'Bhu-uttan' meaning 'high land'. Though known as Bhutan to the outside world, the Bhutanese ourselves refer to our country as Druk Yul or the Land of the Thunder Dragon. 'Druk' means 'Dragon' and extending from the predominant Drukpa school of Tibet
Writing is important because we can communicate with others when they're not where you are or at a different time than you are. I can read a book, a newspaper, or even a personal letter written two or three hundred years ago. People, ten thousand miles away from me right now must be reading the very article I'm writing. A hundred years from now, someone would be reading something that you or I write today. So keep writing to let the world hear what you have to say...