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Dzong architecture is used for dzongs, a distinctive type of fortified monastery (Dzongkha: རྫོང, Wylie: rdzong, ) architecture found mainly in Bhutan and Tibet. The architecture is massive in style with towering exterior walls surrounding a complex of courtyards , temples, administrative offices, and monks' accommodation.
Trongsa Dzong, the largest dzong fortress Bhutan. Bhutanese architecture consists of Dzong and everyday varieties. Dzongs in Bhutan were built as fortresses and have served as religious and administrative centers since the 17th century. Secular lordly houses emerged as a distinct style in the late 19th century, during a period of relative peace ...
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The dzong was consecrated and named as Trashigang by Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje. After the 1962 Sino-Indian War, Bhutan allowed Indian soldiers returning home to pass through Eastern Bhutan. However they were required to deposit their rifles at the armoury in the Dzong, and proceed through Bhutan unarmed. The rifles lie in the Dzong to this day.
Trongsa Dzong is a powerfully built fortress and is exemplary of dzong architecture. [4] The Trongsa Dzong is an extensive complex; the largest in all of Bhutan, and is set on many different levels. It consists of a maze of courtyards, passageways and corridors and the complex contains as many as 25 temples. [4]
Architecture of Bhutan; D. Driglam namzha; Dzong architecture; G. Gompa Drophan Ling in Darnków This page was last edited on 9 December 2022, at 16:17 (UTC ...
Jakar Dzong or Jakar Yugyal Dzong is the dzong or fortress of the Bumthang District in central Bhutan. It is located on a ridge above Jakar town in the Chamkhar valley of Bumthang. It is built on the site of an earlier temple established by the Ralung hierarch Yongzin Ngagi Wangchuk (1517–1554) when he came to Bhutan.
The Punakha Dzong, also known as Pungthang Dewa chhenbi Phodrang (meaning "the palace of great happiness or bliss" [1] [2]), is the administrative centre of Punakha District in Punakha, Bhutan. Constructed by Ngawang Namgyal , 1st Zhabdrung Rinpoche , in 1637–38, [ 1 ] [ 3 ] it is the second oldest and second-largest dzong in Bhutan and one ...