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Bhutanese boys wearing gho at a festival in Punakha, November 2006 Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan, wearing a gho and royal saffron kabney. The gho or g'ô (Dzongkha: བགོ་, Dzongkha pronunciation:) [1] is the traditional and national dress for men in Bhutan.
The Driglam Namzha (Dzongkha: སྒྲིག་ལམ་རྣམ་གཞག་; Wylie: sgrig lam rnam gzhag) is the official code of etiquette and dress code of Bhutan. It governs how citizens should dress in public as well as how they should behave in formal settings. It also regulates a number of cultural assets such as art and architecture.
The use of gho and kabney is encouraged in Bhutan as a part of driglam namzha (or driklam namzhak), the official code of etiquette and dress code of Bhutan. Gho is compulsory for schoolboys and government officials. [1] [2] The female traditional dress is called kira; a rachu is worn over the traditional dress kira. [1] [3]
Cradled in the folds of the Himalayas, Bhutan has relied on its geographical isolation to protect itself from outside cultural influences. A sparsely populated country bordered by India to the south, and China to the north, Bhutan has long maintained a policy of strict isolationism, both culturally and economically, with the goal of preserving its cultural heritage and independence.
Bhutanese girls wearing kira and toego Bhutanese women wearing kiras. The kira (Dzongkha: དཀྱི་ར་, དཀྱིས་རས་, romanized: dkyi-ra, dkyis-ras) [1] is the national dress for women in Bhutan. It is an ankle-length dress consisting of a rectangular piece of woven fabric.
The National Symbols of Bhutan include the national flag, national emblem, national anthem, and the mythical druk thunder featured in all three. Other distinctive symbols of Bhutan and its dominant Ngalop culture include Dzongkha, the national language; the Bhutanese monarchy; and the Driglam Namzha, a seventeenth-century code on dress, etiquette, and dzong architecture.
Bhutanese women wearing kira with tego. A toego or tego (Dzongkha: སྟོད་གོ་, Wylie: stod go; also romanised tögo) is a long-sleeved, short jacket-like garment worn over a kira by women in Bhutan.
Bhutanese girls wearing kira with wonju visible A wonju ( Dzongkha : འོན་འཇུ་; Wylie : 'on-'ju ) [ 1 ] is a long-sleeved blouse worn by women in Bhutan . Made of silk, polyester, or lightweight cotton, it is worn underneath the Kira , part of the national costume under the driglam namzha .