Trongsa

Trongsa
Trongsa
	Trongsa
	Trongsa Location in Bhutan
	Coordinates: 27°31′N 90°30′E / 27.517°N 90.500°E
Country	Bhutan
District	Trongsa District
Time zone	UTC+6 (BTT)

Trongsa, previously Tongsa (Dzongkha: ཀྲོང་གསར་, Wylie: krong gsar), is a Thromde or town, and the capital of Trongsa District in central Bhutan. The name means "new village" in Dzongkha.^{[citation needed]} The first temple was built in 1543 by the Drukpa lama Ngagi Wangchuck, who was the great-grandfather of Ngawang Namgyal, Zhabdrung Rinpoche, the unifier of Bhutan.^{[citation needed]}

Trongsa Dzong[edit]

Chökhor Raptentse Dzong at Trongsa which was built in 1644, used to be the seat of power of the Wangchuck dynasty before it became rulers of Bhutan in 1907. Traditionally the King of Bhutan first becomes the Trongsa Penlop (governor) before being named Crown Prince and eventually King. Built on a mountain spur high above the gorges of the Mangde Chhu, the dzong controlled east-west trade for centuries. The only road connecting eastern and western Bhutan (the precursor to the modern Lateral Road), passed through the courtyard of the dzong. At the command of the penlop the massive doors could be shut, dividing the country in two.

Higher yet on the mountainside is a watchtower, called "Ta Dzong"(watch tower), built to guard the dzong from enemies but now housing a museum and a chapel dedicated to Jigme Namgyal who was Trongsa Penlop from 1853 to 1870. ^[1]

Early establishment of Trongsa Dzong.

As per the prophecyལུང་བསྟན། of lha dang lama,In 1543 the tutor[yong-zinཡོངས་འཛིན] of kuenkhen Pema karpoཀུན་མཁྱེན་པདྨ་དཀར་པོ། visited yoelingའོད་གླིང་། village to the northབྱང་ཕྱོགས།of current day Trongsa dzong,where yoeling templeལྷ་ཁང་།ོis located.In his clear spiritual vision,he saw a sparkling light emerging at night from a cliff in the middle of a forest.Later that day,when he went to the site,he saw the baghaབྷ་ག of dorji phamo and the soul lakeབླ་མཚོ།of pelden Lhamoདཔལ་ལྡན་ལྷ་མོ།[Mahakali] as well as the footprints of her riding horseའཆིབ་རྟ along the waist of the cliff.Yongzin Rinpoche then built a hermitage at the particular site and meditated in the area,where he saw Pelden Lhamo in person.In that event ,he realized it to be a prophecy for the place to have a Majestic Dzong,from which the reign of the Pelden Drukpa would flourish as the rays of the Sun.^[2]

The valley of Trongsa also known as Mang-Dey.

Trongsa is also known as Mang-deg which later became Mang-dey,With a change in the spelling and pronunciation of the second word.The history behind who,why and when the name was given runs back to the time when the great Buddhist scholar Kuenkhen Longchen Rabjam visited Trongsa around 1357 and conferred kachoeབཀའ་ཆོས།spritual teaching at the place called Sherabling.During that time the people of Trongsa[devotees] offered plenty of drunaའབྲུ་སྣ།[grain]as offering.In an enchanting way,Kuenkhen Rinpoche said,''since you all offered me plenty of grain,the place will be called ''Mang-Deg''མང་སྡེག-mang meaning plenty and deg meaning offered.Thus the name of the place was derived from Kuenkhen Rinpoche's statement,and was known as Mang-deg,which later changed to mag-dey as mentioned before,with the change of time.^[3]

Highway to Sarpang just east of the town
Trongsa town medical centre
Trongsa Dzong from above to the west of the town
Holy water spring -Trongsa- Bhutan

References[edit]

^ Atlas of Bhutan:Land Cover and Institutional Facilities. Thimphu: National Land Commission. 2016. p. 32. ISBN 978-9993692614.
^ wangchuk, Dorji (1/9/2021 LUNAR CALENDER). MOENLAM CHENMO TRONGSA DZONGKHAG (in ALSO IN DZONGKHA). Research and translation office of His Holiness the Jekhenpo. p. 17. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year=, |date=, and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
^ Wangchuk, Dorji (1/9/2021 lunar calender). Moenlam chenmo trongsa dzong. Research and translation office of His Holiness the Je Khenpo. p. 1. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year=, |date=, and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)

27°31′N 90°30′E / 27.517°N 90.500°E / 27.517; 90.500

[1] Atlas of Bhutan:Land Cover and Institutional Facilities. Thimphu: National Land Commission. 2016. p. 32. ISBN 978-9993692614.

[2] wangchuk, Dorji (1/9/2021 LUNAR CALENDER). MOENLAM CHENMO TRONGSA DZONGKHAG (in ALSO IN DZONGKHA). Research and translation office of His Holiness the Jekhenpo. p. 17. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year=, |date=, and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[3] Wangchuk, Dorji (1/9/2021 lunar calender). Moenlam chenmo trongsa dzong. Research and translation office of His Holiness the Je Khenpo. p. 1. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year=, |date=, and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)

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Trongsa Dzong[edit]

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