Ruepisa Gewog Explained

Official Name:	Ruepisa Gewog
Native Name:	རུས་སྦིས་ས་
Settlement Type:	Gewog
Mapsize:	350px
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Bhutan
Subdivision Type1:	District
Subdivision Name1:	Wangdue Phodrang District
Unit Pref:	Metric
Timezone:	BTT
Utc Offset:	+6

Ruepisa Gewog (Dzongkha: རུས་སྦིས་ས་) is a gewog (village block) of (Dzongkha: དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་རྫོང་ཁ།) Wangdue Phodrang District, Bhutan.^{[1] [2]}

Phoetsi goenpa

It was founded by(Dzongkha: ཨ་ནི་དཔལ་དཀར་ཆོས་འཛོམས།) Ani Pekar Chozom during the 15th century. On the ridge further ahead of the temple can be seen traces of her body cremation.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chiwogs in Wangdue Phodrang . PDF . . 2011 . 2011-07-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111002191701/http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/2011/finaldelimitation/wangdue.pdf . 2011-10-02 .
2. Web site: -. Royal Government of Bhutan. December 12, 2010.
3. Book: Kun-bzang-vphrin-las . A comprehensive guide to the sacred places of Bhutan (Punakha, Wangdiphodrang, Chukha) . 2016 . KMT Printers and Publishers . 978-99936-33-53-2 . Seeds of faith / ed. by Pema Wangdi and M. Ling . Thimphu.