Historical Facts of Bhutan

  Guru Rinpoche’s Prophecy Guru Rinpoche informed Tibetans that he would leave Tibet for the land of Rakshas. Mune Tsenpo being the young king at the time, saddened by the news of Guru Rinpoche leaving Tibet, Mune Tsenpo requested Guru Rinpoche to stay back at Tibet. Mune Tsenpo also asked questions to Guru Rinpoche. In answer to Mune Tsenpo’s questions, Guru Rinpoche spoke the following Stanzas.   བསམ་ཡས་ལྷ་ཁང་ཁོག་ཅིང་ལྷམ་པ་དང་།                    མཐའ་འདུལ་གཙུག་ལག་ཕལ་ཆེར་འདྲུལ་ཞིང་ཞིག།         ང་ཡི་སྤྲུལ་པ་ལྷོ་ཡི་ཕྱོགས་སུ་འབྱུང་།         རྟེན་འབྲེལ་འགྲིགས་ན་བསྟན་པའི་སྲོག་ཤིང་ཚུགས།                   གནམ་དཀར་རྩེ་ལ་དགོན་གཞེས་ཆེ་བར་འབྱུང་།    སྟག་ཚང་བྲག་ལ་ཡིག་དྲུག་ཆོས་སྒྲ་ཤར། ང་ཡི་སྤྲུལ་པ་གཏུམ་པོའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་འབྱུང་།         རྟེལ་འབྲེལ་འགྲིགས་ན་ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་ཡུན་དུ་བདེ། Guru Rinpoche spoke the above stanzas during the 8 th century CE. But this Guru Rinpoche’s prophecy was revealed by Terton Drukdra Dorji in the 18 th century CE.   Source: Terton Drukdra Dorji’s gSung from

  The Pemberton Mission to Bhutan (1837 – 1838) British realized that all communications from the British Government were withheld by the Bhutanese frontier officers. Now they wanted to send a special Mission to Bhutan to find out the true information about Bhutan. The Mission has four main objectives to be achieved. They are given below: [1] 1.      -  To establish diplomatic relation with the Bhutan Government 2.      -   To resolve the problems of tribute payment for the duars to further reduce the border conflict in the area. 3.      -   To persuade the Bhutan to make over the management of the Assam Duars in lieu of our payment 4.      -   To settle the terms of the commercial treaty of 1774 which was remained suspended so far. The Mission was headed by Captain R. Boileau Pemberton. Other members of the Mission include Ensign M.T. Blake as a surveyor and Dr. W.M. Griffit, as an assistant surgeon and about 50 men of escort of the Assam Sebundy Corps.They decided to tr