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Bhutan
The Unremembered Nation (Vol.2, Art and Ideals)
Introduction
The process of modernization has brought discontinuities in collective memory. This volume and its prequel provide an act of collective remembrance, knitting together many voices and stories.
Historical Context
It shows the readers a world of the past before modernization began in the 1960s.
Content Overview
Volume 2 covers the monumental architecture of dzongs (castles) and administration of the country, authority and power, cosmological concepts and beliefs, religions and rites, visualization and meditation, visual arts, and folk drama that affected the daily life of the people.
Additional Topics
Some chapters also dwell on monastic life and monkhood, and Guru Rinpoche's imprints on the land and its people.
