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Her Majesty Gyalyum Tshering Yangdoen Wangchuck graced the graduation ceremony of the 10-day basic skills training course for nuns and granted certificates at the Paro College of Education yesterday. The training, conducted by the lecturers from the college, focused on four areas; teaching skills, teaching strategies, assessment for learning, and basic skills in counselling
Bhutan Nuns Foundation initiates building a traditional Bhutanese mud-rammed house, a training centre for nuns, which respects tradition more than just four walls and a roof. By Dr. Tashi Zangmo, Executive Director of Bhutan Nuns Foundation. The traditional Jangkhim house The traveler through Bhutan can notice the persistent scatter of derelict traditional
We want to update that the ongoing construction of Training Centre for Nuns is progressing well.
Nuns offer prayers and zhudhrel phuensum tshogpa on April 25 Religion: Nuns across the country will start studying a curriculum that has been developed for them, and discontinue the one that was developed for monks. The Bhutan Nun Foundation’s patron, Her Majesty Gyalyum Tshering Yangden Wangchuck, launched the new curriculum on April 26
22 March, 2015, Tsalumaphey, Thimphu: Under the patronage and guidance of Her Majesty The Queen Mother, Gyalyum Tshering Yangdoen Wangchuck, the Bhutan Nuns Foundation (BNF) commemorated an important milestone with the traditional earth ramming ceremony of the Training and Resource Centre for Bhutanese Nuns in Tsalumaphey (Babesa). The very auspicious occasion was graced by Her
In honour of His Majesty the King’s 35th Birth Anniversary, nunneries throughout the country organized special prayers for the longevity of His Majesty. The Bhutan Nuns Foundation sponsored these prayers. BNF would like to thank all those nunneries who were very kind enough to collaborate with and organize these prayers. All of the nunneries performed day long prayers but some
A retreat centre for nuns is being built in Tshalumaphay, opposite Babesa in Thimphu. The centre will be a big one, of course. It will have a conference hall, a library, a medical centre and classrooms to train nuns after graduation. This is Bhutan Nuns Foundation’s (BNF) cherished dream. It is a dream worth USD 2m. So, to raise funds, BNF
Imagine visiting a place where every blade of grass is believed to be sacred. Now imagine visiting a monastery in that place. Lajab Choten Certain places can't be reached by chance. One needs to be destined to be there. One such place in Bhutan is Lajab Pema Gatshel in Samdrup Jongkhar. It's
Nuns train nuns: Five nun trainers trained 20 other nuns from nunneries across the country on women’s health issues in Paro last week. The training was organised by the Bhutan Nuns Foundation and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). (Courtesy: Kuensel)
