| | It is hard not to be moved, when visiting Bhutan. The scenery is breath-taking, people are kind and smiling, and a unique cultural and religious heritage flourishes. The Buddhist perspective of life strikes you visually everywhere.
Prayer flags on mountain pass and bridges are sending wishes of happiness for all sentient beings out in the universe. Temples on top of the cliffs are protecting the Buddha’s teachings, old people with prayer wheels in hand and monks in dark red robes are mingling in among laypeople in cities and in the country side.
Sandwiched between Tibet in North and India in the South, Bhutan is one of the most isolated countries in the world and has as the only country in the world the Tantric form of Mahayana Buddhism as state religion.
Gross National Happiness is a widely used term in Bhutan; the Gross National Happiness is more important than the Gross National Product, the King famously stated. Therefore the government pursues this as the goal for its politics.
For those reasons and several others, Bhutan is fascinating, different from the West, and offers a new perspective of life. Mind-twisting, kind, worth worshiping, when you try to get into it and explore. |
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