![]() ![]() We must preserve our dress and music even as we encourage their evolution. If our languages, the soul of our culture, disappear, every aspect of our culture, including our music tradition, will disappear. Our languages and dress come to my mind first. Our unique culture makes a Bhutanese truly Bhutanese. What makes the Bhutanese truly Bhutanese? Needrup Zangpo tries to get a glimpse of the changing Bhutan through Lopon Kunzang Thinley. He was summoned to Thimphu to write for the education department where his writing career started. Formidable Lam Nado, who headed a team of writers at the department, saw the writer in Lopon Kunzang through that letter. While teaching in remote Pemagatshel, he did not get his salary for three months in a row, which prompted him to write a three-page complaint letter in verse to the education department. After passing out of the erstwhile Rigzhung Lobdra in Semtokha, he became a teacher. He is the author of four dictionaries, including Bhutan’s first Dzongkha dictionary, and some 20 notable books. ![]() ![]() Sixty-five-year-old Lopon Kunzang Thinley has been a researcher and writer for 31 years. You can download this Article as a PDF by clicking here ![]()
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