In the first half of the 17th century, three major Buddhist governments that
combined a twofold religious and political structure under a Buddhist ruler
were established in the Tibetan cultural area (hereafter: Joint Twofold System
of Governance).1 In 1625/26,2 Bhutan was united under the rule of
a charismatic Tibetan Buddhist master, Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel (1594–
ca. 1651; hereafter: Zhabdrung); Tibet and Sikkim followed, both in 1642 –
although with significant differences in their respective institutionalisation.
The Bhutanese government as a constitutional monarchy with a
Buddhist king is the only one among the three still in existence today.
Bhutan’s transformation into a modern society along the lines of this Joint
Twofold System of Governance under the conditions of non-colonialisation
but with crucial and intense encounters of its societal elites with Western and Asian forms of modernity and secularity represents, therefore, a
unique case in point.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:36142 |
| Date | 14 November 2019 |
| Creators | Schwerk, Dagmar |
| Contributors | Kolleg-Forschergruppe 'Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion, doc-type:workingPaper, info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-167259, qucosa:16725 |
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