History of Bhutan (Paperback)  | Released: 01 Jan 2016

In 2008, Bhutan emerged as theworld’s youngest democracy andcrowned the world’s youngestmonarch. Today, it continuesto enchant the rest of the worldwith its policy of Gross NationalHappiness and has become apopular travel destination. Butdespite its growing popularityand the rising scholarly interestin the country, Bhutan remainsone of the most poorly studiedplaces on earth.Karma Phuntsho’s The Historyof Bhutan combines bothtraditional perspectives andmodern academic analysis andtells the full story of Bhutan for the first time in the Englishlanguage. Primarily a historicalaccount, it also includessubstantive discussions ofBhutan’s geography, culture andsociety to give readers an incisiveintroduction to the country. About the AuthorDr. Karma Phuntsho is a Bhutanese scholar, social worker and the Founding Director of the Loden Foundation. He completed his monastic training and went on to pursue his doctoral degree at Oxford University. He also completed an intense nine year program at the Ngagyur Nyingma Institute and was bestowed the Lopen Title of the Holder of Esoteric and Definitive Doctrines with Distinction.