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Brief history and description on Zhungdra Ya Gi Leg Pai Dingri.

གཞུང་སྒྲ་ཡ་གི་ལེགས་པའི་ལྡིང་རི་ནང་གི་འབྱུང་ཁུངས་དང་ལོ་རྒྱུས།                                       ༼ཡ་གི་ལེགས་པའི་ལྡིང་རི་ནང་།༽               ཡ་གི་ལེགས་པའི་ལྡིང་རི་ནང། །ལྷ་འདྲེ་ཆགས་པའི་ལྡིང་རི་ནང་། །               སྐར་སངས་གསེར་གྱི་བཟང་བུམ་ནང་། །ཡི་དམ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་ཕེབས་ཟེར་ཕེབས། །               མཚན་ལྡན་བླ་མའི་མཇལ་ཁ་ནང་། །བྱིན་རླབས་གསུང་སྐད་ཡོད་ཟེར་ཡོད། ། གླུ་གཞས་ལུ་ བོད་སྒྲ། གཞུང་སྒྲ་དང་ རིག་གསར་ ཟེར་གསུམ་ཡོད་ས་ལས་ གོང་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་གླུ་ཚིག་འདི་ གཞུང་སྒྲ་ཨིན་མས། གཞུང་སྒྲ་འདི་ དབང་འདུས་རྫོང་ཁག་གི་མངའ་འོག་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ གཡུས་སྒང་ སྟེང ་ཟེར་སར་ལུ་ སྒང་ སྟེང ་ལྷ་ཁང་འདི་ བཞེངས་པའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ སྒང་ སྟེང ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ སྐུ...
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Atsara: A Sacred-Profane Character The  Atsara  figure is an integral part of many Bhutanese festivals. Being a primary agent of mirth and merriment, the red face comical character holding a phallus is generally thought of as a clown at the tshechu festivals. The  Atsara  character, however, is more than just a clown for entertainment. The  Atsara  combines the spirit of the sacred and profane, wit and wisdom, humour and responsibility. He helps his audience not only to forget their worries and problems with his jokes but also to occasionally drop their normal sense of self-importance, hypocrisy and false propriety through his pranks. The name,  Atsara , is said to have come from the Sanskrit term  acārya , which is transcribed in Tshuyig  as ཨ་ཙརྱ་.  Acārya  refers to a teacher or scholar and was a title used to refer to the Indian masters. For instance, the three famous Indian  acāryas  who have shown grea...
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Zhungdra: dying voice of the divine   MAIN SOTRY:  It was 1968. A group of veteran Bhutanese singers and instrumentalists boarded a plane for the first time. They were to make a gramophone recording upon the command of the Third Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. It was the peak of summer in Calcutta, India. They travelled to the Dum Dum Studio and started recording. Among the group were Aup Dawpey and Aum Thinlem. They made two trips that year, each lasting for about 20 days. Aup Dawpey Aup Dawpey was 37 and played both   lim and   drangyen (Bhutanese lute). While Aum Thinlem, then just 20, sang her heart out. The group recorded 15 tracks. Most of the numbers were Zhungdra. The songs recorded at the studio were released on a long-playing vinyl record, which were distributed to Bhutanese royals and officials. Dasho Drupon, who played   drangyen , led the group with Drimpon Sonam Dorji, a respected dance instructor and vocalist. In addit...
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