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The Divine Offering Water: A Poetic Petition of Honest Advice to the Dharma King Ngawang Namgyal.

  ༄༅། །ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ངག་དབང་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ལ་དྲང་གཏམ་ཞུ་མཆིད་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་ལྷ་ཡི་མཆོད་ཡོན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། ། The Divine Offering Water: A Poetic Petition of Honest Advice to the Dharma King Ngawang Namgyal. ༄༅། །སྲིད་ཞིའི་དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲུག་གི་སྒྲ་དབྱངས་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོར་སྒྲོག་ལ་དཔའ་བའི་སྒྲ་མངོན་མཐོས། །མ་ལུས་ཟིལ་གྱིས་གནོན་པའི་མཐུ་དང་མཐའ་ཡས་ཤེས་བྱར་མཁས་པའི་གོ་འཕང་རྩེར་འཛེགས་ཏེ། །འཕྲིན་ལས་རྣམ་བཞིས་དཀར་བརྒྱུད་རྒྱལ་མཚན་སྲིད་རྩེར་འདེགས་ལ་གཞན་དྲིང་མི་འཇོག་འགྲོ་བའི་སྐྱབས། །ངག་གི་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཕྱོགས་དུས་ཀུན་ལས་རྣམ་པར ཀུན་ཏུ་བསྔགས་པར་འོས། །ལེགས་བྱས་འབུམ་ཕྲག་དཔལ་དུ་འབར་བའི་འོད། །མཐའ་ཀླས་མཚན་དཔེར་བརྗིད་ཆགས་ཞབས་སེན་གྱི། The melodious voice of the glorious Drukpa, resounding throughout the wheel of directions, proclaims its renown far and wide. With the power to overshadow all without exception, it ascends to the pinnacle of scholarly prowess in infinite fields of knowledge. Through the four types of enlightened activity, it raises the victory banner of the Kagyu lineage to the peak of existence...
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A Letter to Chotse Penlop Jigme Namgyal from his root lama Jangchub Tsondru.

  A Letter to Chotse Penlop Jigme Namgyal from his root lama Jangchub Tsondru. ལུགས་གཉིས་ཤེས་བྱ་ཡོངས་ལ་དབང་འབྱོར་བའི་མི་རྗེ་ས་སྐྱོང་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཞབས་དྲུང་དུ།      ཆེད་གསོལ།       ད་ལན་           བཀའ་རྒྱ་རྟེན་བཅས་འབྱོར་པ་བཀྲིན་ཆེ་དོན།       འདིར་ཡང་སྤ་གྲོ་སྟག་ཚང་ན་བཅད་རྒྱ་བྱེད་མུས་སྐྱེ་ཆུ་འགའ་ཞིག་ལ། དོད་མོས་དང་མཐུན་པའི་ཟབ་ཆོས་བྱིན་བཞིན་པ་གནས་ཤིང་།      འདི་ཟླའི་ཚེས་བཅུ་དགུ་ཉེར་ལྔ་གང་རུང་ལ་སྟག་ཚང་ནས་འཐོན་ཐོག་སྐྱེར་ཆུ་ལ་སྟོང་མཆོད་ཞིག་ཕུལ་དགོས་ཀྱི་ཞག་གསུམ་བཞི་ལུས་འགྲོ་ཞིང་།   དེ་ནས་ལྟག་རྫོང་ཨབ་རྒན་རྩར་ཞག་གཅིག་གཉིས་ཐོགས།         མཚམས་བྲག་གནས་ཕུ་དཔའ་སྒར་ཕ་ལྡིང་ཝང་སོགས་ལ་གནས་མཇལ་དང་མཆོད་འབུལ་འབྲེལ་བར་ཡོང་དགོས་ནན་ཆེ་ཡང་མི་འགྲོ་བར་ཐག་བཅད་དེ་ལྟག་རྫོང་ནས་ཀྲོང་གསར་བར་ཤར་ཏེ་ཡོང་རྩིས་ཐོག།         འཁལ་བསུ་སོགས་ཨབ་རྒན་ལ་ཉིད་རང་ནས་ཕྱག་བྲིས་གནང་བ་མ་ཟད།      འདི་ཁའི་སློབ་བ...
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The Treaty of Punakha - 1910

  TREATY between HIS EXCELLENCY the RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR GILBERT JOHN ELLIOTT-MURRAY-KYNYNMOP.UCN., DG, .M.S.I., G.M.I.E., G.C.M.G., EARL of MINTO, VICEROY and GOVERNOR-GENER AL of INDIA in COUNCIL and HIS HIGHNESS SIR UGYEN WANGCHUCK, K. C.I.E., MAHARAJA of BHUTAN, 1910.   Whereas it is desirable to amend Articles IV and VIII of the Treaty concluded at Sinchula on the llth day of November 1865, corresponding with the Bhootea year Shing Lang, 24th day of the 9th month, between the British Government and the Government of Bhutan, the undermentioned amendments are agreed to on the one part by Mr. C. A . Bell, Political Officer in Sikkim, in virtue of full powers to that effect vested in him by the Right Honourable Sir Gilbert John Elliott-Murray-Kynynmound, P.C., G.M.S.I., G.M.I.E., G.C.M.G., Earl of Minto, Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council, and on the other part by His Highness Sir Ugyen Wangchuk, K.C.I.E., Maharaja of Bhutan. The following addition has bee...
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AGREEMENT entered into by HIGH OFFICER of the BhOOTAN GOVERNMENT for the surrender of the two Guns -1865.

  AGREEMENT en tered into by HIGH OFFICER of the BhOOTAN GOVERNMENT for the surrender of the two Guns -1865 . We, Sam Dorji Deb Zimpon and Themseyrensey Dronyer, the two high officers of the Bhooton Court, will go back to the Deb Raj-11 and fully explain to His Highness about the two guns which fell into the hands of the Bhootea troops on the evacuation of Dewangiree, and obtain His Highness's consent to go to Tongsa about them. If we succeed in getting back the guns by bringing Tongso Penlow to terms, we will either bring the guns back and restore them at Sinnhula, or else cause them to be handed over to the British officers at Dewangire: but if we should unfortunately be unsuccessfnl, one of us will come down to the Representative of the British Government for assistance, and, in the meantime, we agree to explain to His Highness the Deb Rajah that no money payment can be expected under the 4th Article of the Treaty. We further agree that no money payment under the Treaty shal...
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Treaty between His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir Jonh Lawrence,G.CB., K.C.S.I., Viceroy and Governor General of Her Britannic Majesty ‘s possession in the east Indies, and Their Highnesses the Dharma and Deb Rajas of Bootan.

  Treaty between His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir Jonh Lawrence,G.CB., K.C.S.I., Viceroy  and Governor General  of Her Britannic Majesty ‘s  possession in the east Indies, and  Their  Highnesses the  Dharma  and Deb  Rajas of  Bootan concluded on the one part by Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Bruce  C.B ., by virtue of full powers to that effect vested in him by the Viceroy and Governor-General and on the other part by Sam  Dorji Deb Zimpon and Themseyrensey Dronyer according to full powers conferred on them by the Dharma an d Deb  Rajas,- 1865. Article 1 : There shall henceforth be perpetual peace and friendship between, the British Government and the Government of Bhootan . Article 2 : Whereas in consequence of repeated aggressions of the Bhootan Government and of the refusal of that Government to afford satisfaction for those aggressions, and of their insulting treatment of the officers sent by His Excellency the...
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Translation of the Document which Mr. Eden signed under compulsion

  Translation of the Document which Mr. Eden signed under compulsion Agreement THAT from to-day there shall always be friendship between the Feringees (English) and the Bhotanese. Formerly the Dhurma Raja and the Company's Queen were of one mind, and the same friendship exists to the present day. Foolish men on the frontier having caused a disturbance, certain men belonging to the British power, living on the frontier have taken Bulisusan (Julpigorie?) between Cooch Behar and the Kam Raja, and Ambnree, near the border of Sikkim, and then between Banska and Goalparah, Rangamuttee, Bokalibaree, Motteeamaree, Papareebaree, Arioetta, and then the seven Eastern Dooars. Then certain bad men on the Bhoteah side stole men, cattle, and other property, and committed thefts and robberies, and the Feringees' men plundered property and burnt down houses in Bhotan. By reason of these bad men remaining, the ryots suffered great trouble; and on this account the Governor-General, with a go...
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