Druk tsendhen

Druk tsendhen ("The Thunder Dragon Kinrick") is the naitional anthem o Bhutan.

Adoptit in 1953, the muisic is bi Aku Tongmi an the wirds are bi Dasho Gyaldun Thinley. Tongmi wis educatit in Indie an wis recently appointit leader o the military brass baund when the need for an anthem rose at the occasion o a state visit frae prime meenister Nehru o Indie. His oreeginal score wis inspired bi the Indian an British anthems, as well as the Bhutanese fowk tune Thri nyampa med pa pemai thri ("The Unchynging Lotus Throne"). The melody haes twice unnergane chynges bi Mr Tongmi's successors as baund leaders.

The oreeginal leerics wur 12 lines, but wis shortened tae the present 6 lines version in 1964 bi a secretary tae the keeng. Baith versions are quotit in the beuk at link #1.

As the anthem is inspired bi a fowk tune, there is a choreography tae it as well, oreeginally directit bi Mr. Tongmi.

Leerics

Oreeginal in Dzhongka

འབྲུག་ཙན་དན་བཀོད་པའི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་
དཔལ་ལུགས་གཉིས་བསྟན་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་བའི་མགོན་
འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་
སྐུ་འགྱུར་མེད་བརྟན་ཅིང་ཆབ་སྲིད་འཕེལ་
ཆོས་སངས་རྒྱས་བསྟན་པ་དར་ཞིང་རྒྱས་
འབངས་བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཉི་མ་ཤར་བར་ཤོག་

Transliteration o Dzhongka

Druk tsenden koipi gyelkhap na
Pel loog nig tensi chongwai gyon
Druk gyelpo ngadhak rinpoche
Ku jurmey tenching chhap tsid pel
Chho sangye tenpa darshing gyel
Bang deykyed nyima shar warr sho.

Scots translation

In the Thunder Dragon Kinrick, whaur cypresses grow
Refuge o the glorious monastic an ceevil traditions,
The Keeng o Druk, precious sovereign,
His being is eternal, his reign prosperous
The enlichtenment teachins thrive an flourish
May the fowk shine like the sun o peace an happiness!

See an aa

• Banner o Bhutan
• Emblem o Bhutan
• Naitional seembols o Bhutan

Freemit airtins

• The Origin and Description of the National Flag and Anthem of the Kingdom of Bhutan pdf book, 43 pages
• National anthems.net Archived 2008-05-27 at the Wayback Machine midi file
• Dookola Swiata Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine - This travel website has an instrumental version of the Anthem, as an .asx file.
• Children sing the anthem - This website has a sound file of Bhutanese children singing the Anthem without musical accompaniment. Part of Mitsuaki Kobayahi Archived 2011-06-12 at the Wayback Machine's website about his two year term teaching mathematics in Bhutan Archived 2011-06-12 at the Wayback Machine.