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2021 ichLinks Open Archive Contest
ICHCAP is planning to hold ichLinks Open archive contest from October 25 to November 25. ichLinks Open archive aims to be performed as a channel for discovering and sharing the ICH stories around our daily lives. Safeguarding ICH needs our interest and attention rather than special people or devices. Through diverse viewpoints from the public, ichLinks Open Archive would like to meet various ICH stories with various aspects and the value of cultural diversity. ICHCAP will select a total of 51 winners and give them prizes. The awards to be offered in each category are; First Prize for 1 person, The second Prize (10 people), The third Prize (40 people). The contest is open for everyone. Applicants can join the ichLinks platform through SNS and register their submissions. ICHCAP expects that the contest will help raise public awareness of ICH in their daily lives, which leading ICH safeguarding. 03/03/2022 -
Held the 2nd ichLinks Executive Committee
The Committee meeting screen © ICHACP The 2nd ichLinks Executive Committee was held online on December 9, 2021 (Thursday), from 2 pm to 5 pm (KST). Twelve Partner Organizations (Malaysia, Mongolia, Vietnam, Bhutan, Singapore, Uzbekistan, India, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Fiji) participated and had a fruitful discussion. The Committee was chaired by Dr. Rustam Muzafarov, Deputy Chairman of Kazakhstan National Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, who was elected at the first Committee meeting in June. The agenda discussed were as follows. [Agenda 1] Share ichLinks Project Guidelines [Agenda 2] Reports on 2020-2021 ichLinks support projects’ results and suggestions to improve ichLinks [Agenda 3] Reports on 2021-2022 ichLinks support projects’ plans and suggestions to improve ichLinks [Agenda 4] ichLinks’ mission, vision, roadmap and suggestions for future programmes (ICHCAP) [Agenda 5] Adopt Operational Rules on ichLinks Executive Committee Dr. Rustam Muzafarov, Chairperson of the ichLinks Executive Committee © ICHCAP ICHCAP, the Secretariat of the ichLinks platform, shared ichLinks’ mission, vision and the 1st phase roadmap (2020-2025), and also explained each stage’s goals and activities. In addition, cooperative projects that all Partner Organizations can participate in was proposed. In particular, the programme for artisans’ networking to share good practices of sustainable development through modernization and commercialization of traditional crafts was supported by many Partner Organizations. Proposed programme for exchange of traditional artisans © ICHCAP Partner Organizations also proposed several cooperative projects such as joint research on shared ICH elements, multilingual translation of ichLinks content, and establishment of a common archive on the theme of traditional music and musical instruments. Furthermore, the Partner Organizations expressed great interest in the archive management package that is being developed by ICHCAP this year. The Chairperson, Dr. Muzafarov expressed his special thanks to ICHCAP for initiating the ichLinks project. He mentioned that ichLinks opened a new chapter in the safeguarding of ICH. He also pointed out that the general public in Kazakhstan is starting to take an interest in ICH and understand the need to safeguard ICH through ichLinks. ICHCAP plans to share the results of the 2nd Executive Committee with all Partner Organizations and hold a working-level meeting early next year as soon as the archive package development is completed. Also, the cooperative projects proposed during the meeting will be further elaborated and be implemented in collaboration with Partner Organizations next year. 03/03/2022 -
Heritage and Our Sustainable Future Online Conference
ICHCAP is recruiting the new Partner Organizations for ichLinks, an ICH Information-Sharing Platform in the Asia-Pacific. ichLinks was opened in March 2021 as an online platform(www.ichlinks.com) that provides services related to ICH in cooperation with UNESCO Member States in the Asia-Pacific region. So far, about 9,000 archive data and 38 special contents are being serviced. Partner Organizations are designated among the representative institutions in charge of collecting and managing ICH data of each country. So far, ichLinks has partnered with 12 organizations in 12 countries, and the list of current Partner Organizations can be found here. When designated as a Partner Organization, it can take part in the Executive Committee, and share the ICH data possessed by the organization through ichLinks. Moreover, it can receive the financial and technical supports for building an ICH database, developing ICH content, recruiting project staff, purchasing necessary equipments or IT consultation, upon their request. Organizations wishing to apply can fill out the attached application form and submit it to the ichLinks Secretariat (ichlinks.secretariat@gmail.com) by 25 March 2022 (Fri). We look forward to your participation. 03/03/2022
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གཞུང་བརྔོ་མཛརཝ།
གཞུང་བརྔོ་མཛརཝ་ཟེར་མི་འདི་ ཆུམ་གྱི་རིགས་མ་འདྲཝ་ཚུ་ བརྔོ་སྟེ་བཟོ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཡོངས་གྲགས་ལུ་ ཇ་རྩམ་གྱི་རིགས་ཅིག་ལུ་སླབ་ཨིན། མཛརཝ་ཟེར་མི་ཐ་སྙད་འདི་གི་དོན་དག་འདི་ཨིན་ཟེརཝ་ ངག་རྒྱུན་དང་ ཡིག་ཐོག་ག་ཏེ་ཡང་བཀོད་འདི་མེདཔ་ལས་ དུས་དང་ཕུ་ལས་ ཁ་རྒྱུན་སྦེ་སླབ་སྲོལ་དར་ཏེ་ཡོད་པའི་མིང་ཅིག་ཨིན་མས། གཞུང་བརྔོ་མཛརཝ་འདི་ ལོ་བསྟར་ལོ་ཆོག་གི་སྐབས་ལུ་དང་ ལོ་གསར་ཉི་ལོག་ཚུ་གི་སྐབས་ལུ་ ཇ་རྩམ་མེད་ཐབས་མེདཔ་ཅིག་ཨིན་པའི་ཁར་ མཛརཝ་ལྷམ་པ་མ་འདྲཝ་ཚུ་ ཚོགས་རྫས་སྦེ་ཡང་སྒྲིག་སྲོལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན། མཛརཝ་འདི་ མར་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་སྒྱེས་ཏེ་ མཛརཝ་མར་སྒྱེས་ཟེར་ ཇ་རྩམ་གྱི་ལྷམ་པ་བསྒྲིགས་ཡོད་པའི་གྲས་ལས་ ཇ་རྩམ་རྡིག་ཤོས་ཅིག་སྦེ་རྩིཝ་མ་ཚད་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་ གྲོང་གསེབ་གཡུས་སྒོ་ཚུ་ནང་ མེད་ཐབས་མེདཔ་ཅིག་སྦེ་བརྩིཝ་ཨིན། འདི་ཡང་ ཁྱིམ་ནང་ ནང་གི་ཨ་མའི་ལག་ཤུལ་བདེ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ མཛརཝ་འདི་ དུས་ཨ་རྟགས་ར་ མ་ཆད་པར་བཞག་ཞིནམ་ལས་ ཁྱིམ་ནང་ མགྱོནམོ་ དྲག་ཞན་ཆེ་ཆུང་ ག་བཟུམ་ཅིག་འོང་རུང་ བསུ་བ་ ཇ་དང་མཛརཝ་ ཡང་ན་ ཆང་གི་འབདཝ་ཨིན་མས། གཞུང་བརྔོ་མཛརཝ་ བརྔོ་ཐངས། - ངངམ་བྱཱ་ཆུམ་འདི་ ཐབ་ཁར་ཆུ་དུགཔ་སྦེ་བཀོལ་ཏེ་ ས་ཁར་ཕབ་བཞག་ཞིནམ་ལས་ དྲོད་རན་ཏོག་ཏོ་འགྱོཝ་ད་ ཆུམ་འདི་སྦང་ཞིནམ་ལས་ ཞག་གཅིག་བཞག་དགོ། - དེ་ལས་ དྲོ་པ་མཛརཝ་བརྔོ་རནམ་ད་ ལག་ཅུང་ནང་བླུགས་ཏེ་ཆུ་འཛག་བཅུག་དགོ། - ལག་ཅུང་ནང་ལུ་ ཆུ་ཧོ་འཕྲོས་འཕྲོས་མ་ཐོན་ཚུན་ བཤལ་ཞིནམ་ལས་ ཆུ་ལེགས་ཤོམ་སྦེ་བཙག་བཀོ་དགོ། - ལྷ་ང་ནང་མི་སྦྱར་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ མར་ཁུག་དུམ་གྲ་ཅིག་བླུགས་ཏེ་སྒྱེས་དགོ། - དེ་ལས་ ལྷ་ང་ནང་བླུགས་ཏེ་ གསེག་གསེམ་གྱིས་དཀྲུག་ཅི་ར་བརྔོ་ཞིནམ་ལས་ མཛརཝ་སེར་རུ་རུ་འགྱོཝ་ད་ ཨམ་པ་གིས་བཏབ་ཏེ་ཕབ་དགོ།
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Pham (The Local Yeast)
Pham is a local yeast used to brew local Bhutanese beverage known as Ara. It is made of corn flours, husks (either maize or rice) and wild herbs known as Yangrim in local dialect. Yangrims are collected from forests and are considered a vital ingredient for yeast. They are of different types and most are climbers.
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Par-zo, The Art of Woodblock Carving_Par-ko (image engraving)
Par-zo can be divided into two sub-arts: mask and image or script engraving. The script engraving is further divided into 'Do-ko' stone engraving and 'Shing-par' woodblock engraving. However, the art of scriptural woodblock carving is now considered as an endangered intangible cultural element of Bhutan.
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Dazo, The Art of Traditional Bow and Arrow Making in Bhutan_Arrowhead
Arrowhead locally known as 'Deuchak' is attached at the front end of the shaft using Lachhu. Deuchak is made from metal sheets made specially by blacksmiths. Different kinds of arrow heads are used for different purposes.The crushed Lachhu is put into the Duechak and is heated using flames to melt and spread. Use of Lachhu makes it waterproof and prevents the arrowhead from cracking and keeps the deuchak intact
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National Museum of Bhutan
The National Museum of Bhutan is among the few educational institutions that interpret the history and culture of Bhutan through its exhibits, conducting symposiums, publication of research findings and conservation of artifacts.It boasts a rich variety of artifacts from all over the country representing different eras, as early as 4000 B.C E. to the present day. A visit through the galleries shows the country’s transition from the Stone Age to a modern Mahayanist Buddhist and multicultural kingdom with its cultural heritage intact. The Museum is designed with connoisseurs, students, scholars and tourists in mind, and seeks to provide each visitor with a rich and colourful experience. The National Museum performs an essential role as a preserver and promoter of Bhutanese cultural values.Preserving culture and cultural values is one of the Nine Domains (Psychological Welbeing, Ecological diversity and Resilience, Health, Education, Culture, Living Standard, Time use and balance, Community Vitality and Good Governance) of Gross National Happiness, the Bhutanese philosophy for national development. Gross National Happiness is a unifying vision for Bhutan’s five year planning process, and all major government initiatives comply with its principles. The Museum is proud to be at the center of serving the well-being and development of the Bhutanese people. -
Tarayana Foundation
Tarayana Foundation was founded by Her Majesty, Queen Mother Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, and formally launched by His Majesty, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the then Crown Prince, on 4th May 2003. Tarayana Foundation is a Civil Society Organization (a Public Benefit Organization) registered (Registration No. CSOA /PBO-08) with the Civil Society Organization Authority of Bhutan. Tarayana Foundation is established primarily to help addressing the international goals, national initiatives and grassroots development. Tarayana commit its services from the heart for rural transformation serving to the vulnerable and disadvantaged rural communities through the approaches of three dimensions of social, energy and economic development. Tarayana Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors and the Executive Committees. Currently, there are 32 dedicated staff, including 12 field officers covering all the 20 Districts. -
Bhutan National Commission for U N E S C O
Since 1945, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has led global efforts to foster peace through international cooperation in education, science, culture, and communication. From safeguarding World Heritage sites and championing inclusive education, to defending freedom of expression and driving scientific innovation, UNESCO works hand-in-hand with nations and communities worldwide to build a more just and sustainable future. -
Dr. Yonten Dargye (PhD)
Dr. Yonten Dargye is the Director of the NLAB and he joined the NLAB in 1997. He holds an M.A., M.Phil. and Doctorate Degree in Buddhist Studies and History from the University of Delhi, India. Dr. Yonten’s research interests focus on Bhutanese religion, history, and culture; and have translated and authored several books and publications on these subjects. Besides he executed and implemented many international and national projects at the working level through the coordination and supervision of the team’s efforts. He also served as a committee member for various international and national forums and provided professional services for setting questions and evaluation of written examination papers (History) for the Bhutan Civil Service Examinations since 1998, the validation of History and Himalayan Studies Programme in colleges; and contributed chapters for the Bhutan History curriculum of the Royal Education Council (REC).