Rangjung Explained

Official Name:Rangjung
Native Name:རང་བྱུང་
Settlement Type:Town
Pushpin Map:Bhutan
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Bhutan
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Bhutan
Subdivision Type1:District
Subdivision Name1:Tashigang District
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Timezone:BTT
Utc Offset:+6
Coordinates:27.3619°N 91.6781°W
Elevation M:1120

Rangjung is a town on the Gamri River in the Radhi Gewog of Tashigang District, East Bhutan.

The town is the location of Rangjung Oesel Choeling Monastery, established by Dungse Garab Dorje Rinpoche in 1989; and the Rangjung Vocational Training Institute (VTI) which offers certificate level courses in electrical engineering, computer hardware & networking, and furniture making.[1] It is also the location of a small hydro-electric project.[2]

Rangjung in Tibetan and probably as much in Dzongkha expresses the concept of a self-arisen manifestation. All over the Tibetan cultural sphere there are sacred seed syllables, mantras or depictions of deities that a presumed not to be man-made, but "rangjung", self arisen or autogenic. For example, in the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa is a rangjung goats head in a side chapel protruding out of a big rock.

References

  1. Web site: Vocational Training Institute, Rangjung . Tashigang Dzongkhag Administration . 2009-03-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080724163859/http://www.trashigang.gov.bt/travel/placesofinterest.php . 2008-07-24.
  2. Web site: Evaluation of Small Hydro Projects in Namche Bazaar (Nepal) and Rangjung (Bhutan) . final version . Austrian Development Co-operation . March 2001 . 2009-03-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110531205732/http://www.entwicklung.at/uploads/media/897_o_projects_in_namche_bazaar_and_rangjung_28_07.pdf . 2011-05-31.

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