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Centre for Bhutan & GNH Studies (CBS)

The Centre for Bhutan & GNH Studies (CBS) is a social science research institute which conducts inter-disciplinary studies on Bhutan for advancing its social, cultural, economic and political wellbeing. It was established in November 1998 by the Royal Government of Bhutan and governed by rtsa khrims (rules and regulations). Ever since its establishment, we have been conducting research on Bhutanese history, society, culture, religion, economy, politics and related themes.
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• December 31, 2023 Dumping the Jewel in the River: Renewing and Perpetuating the Memory of Bhutanese Statehood in Punakha Domchoe
  By: Sonam Kinga
• December 31, 2023 Characteristics and Determinants of International Migration: The Recent Phenomenon of Migration of Bhutanese to International Destinations
  By: Tobden Tobden, Lhawang Ugyel, Tashi Dorjee
• December 31, 2023 Bibliometric Analysis of Publication Related to Bhutan, 1894-2022
  By: Sonam Wangdi
• December 31, 2023 Studying the Post-COVID-19 Landscape of Higher Education in Bhutan: A Systematic Literature Review
  By: Kinley Rinchen, Vicki Banham, Sonam Pelden
• October 20, 2023 Gross National Happiness Policy Outputs in Bhutan from 1972 to 2014*
  By: Michael Givel
• October 20, 2023 Innovation and Economic Value: A Prospective Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Fab Bhutan Challenge
  By: Milan Thomas
• October 20, 2023 Teacher Attrition: Why do Public Teachers Leave?
  By: Yangchen C. Rinzin
• October 20, 2023 The 21st Century Global Crisis: Laying out the Foundations for a New World Civilization
  By: Jorge Armand
• June 01, 2023 Impact of Climate Change on Communities in Phobji and Gangtey valley in Bhutan
  By: Tshering Yangden
• June 01, 2023 Yak Herding as the Main Source of Livelihood: Examining Challenges and Opportunities of Highlanders in Bhutan
  By: Sonam Wangdi, Kelly Tobden Dorji Tamang, Pelden Wangchuk, Sherub
• June 01, 2023 Understanding the Experiences of Dropouts During COVID-19 Pandemic School Closure: A Qualitative Study
  By: Sonam Wangmo, Dorji S., Cheku
• June 01, 2023 Journalist Attrition and its Expected Impact on Democracy in Bhutan
  By: Yangchen C. Rinzin
• March 29, 2022 Performance and Accountability: A Case of Bhutanese Civil Service
  By: Singay
• March 29, 2022 The Impact on Early Bhutanese Coinage of Contentious Relations Between Bhutan and Cooch Behar from 1772 to 1774
  By: Michael Givel
• March 29, 2022 A Critical Analysis of Degrowth Debates Through the Lens of Gross National Happiness (GNH): Refraining from the Conventional View of Plurality*
  By: Katsu Masaki
• March 29, 2022 So Old and Yet So New: Buddhist Education and the Monastic Curriculum in Contemporary Bhutan
  By: Dorji Gyeltshen, Manuel Lopez
• March 22, 2022 Watching the Words: A Situational Analysis of Selfcensorship in Bhutanese Media
  By: Sonam Wangdi
• March 01, 2022 Does GNH Determine Contextual QoL? A Case of Thimphu Urban
  By: Gonpo Tenzin
• March 01, 2022 Determinants of Cottage and Small Industries Growth in Thimphu Thromde
  By: Tashi Norbu, Tendri Gyeltshen, Phuntsho Drukpa
• March 01, 2022 Watching the Words: A Situational Analysis of Selfcensorship in Bhutanese Media
  By: Sonam Wangdi
• November 26, 2021 Push, Pull and Falling out: Determinant Factors of Drop-out in Technical Training Institutes in Bhutan
  By: Sonam Wangmo, Sangay Tshewang
• November 01, 2020 Lepcha Chieftains of the 17th–18th Centuries, based on Tibetan and Bhutanese Sources
  By: John Ardussi
• November 01, 2020 Luminaries and Legacies of Nenyingpa in Western Bhutan
  By: Dorji Penjore
• November 01, 2020 Welcoming a State That Possesses the Secret of Eternal Youth! A reflection on Bhutan’s UNO Membership
  By: Sonam Kinga
• November 01, 2020 Evolution of the Meaning of Happiness in Modern Bhutan from 2008 to 2019
  By: Michael Givel
• November 01, 2020 Descriptive Analysis of Need Assessment of the Scouting Programmes for Nazhoen and Nachung Scouts in Thimphu District
  By: Lham Tshering, Sherab Jatsho
• November 01, 2020 Attitude of Students of Gedu College of Business Studies Towards Reading Dzongkha
  By: Chencho Wangchuk
• June 01, 2020 Bhutan’s Foresighted Resilience in the Initial Period of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Through the Lens of Gross National Happiness
  By: Ritu Verma, Kuenga Wangmo
• June 01, 2020 Healing in the Himalayas: Robert Saunders, Surgeon, and the Embassy to Bhutan and Tibet of 1783
  By: Lindsey Valancius, Trevor Lipscombe
• June 01, 2020 Bhutan in SAARC and BIMSTEC
  By: Chokey Namgyal Bhutia
• May 22, 2020 Population and Migration in Thimphu Thromde
  By: Sangay Chophel
• May 22, 2020 The Legislative Capacity of a Small-State Parliament: An Analysis of the Parliament of Bhutan
  By: Gerard W. Horgan
• May 22, 2020 Scientific Productivity and Citation Analysis of the Bhutan Journal of Research and Development, 2012- 2019
  By: Lingchen Dorji
• May 22, 2020 The Eight Manifestations of GNH: Multiple Meanings of a Development Alternative
  By: Ritu Verma
• December 01, 2019 Media Reporting of Suicides in Bhutan: Analysis of Adherence to WHO Guidelines
  By: Tshoki Zangmo, Sonam Zangmo
• December 01, 2019 A Bibliometric Analysis of the Journal of Bhutan Studies, 1999-2017
  By: Lingchen Dorji
• December 01, 2019 Who is the Tigress in the Lair? A Preliminary Enquiry About Khandro Yeshe Tshogyel’s Visit to Taktsang
  By: Sonam Kinga
• December 01, 2019 Putting the Festival Participants Back into the Festival: Rethinking Communal Identity Formation in Buddhist Cham Festivals in Bhutan
  By: Mareike Wulff
• December 01, 2019 A Dharma Raja and a Mahasiddha: A Note on the Spiritual Relationship Between His Majesty King Ugyen Wangchuck and Togden Shakya Shri
  By: Sonam Kinga
• May 13, 2019 Trend of Bhutan’s Trade during 1907-26: Import
  By: Ratna Sarkar, Indrajit Ray
• May 13, 2019 Bhutan: Notes* Concerning the Political Role of Kidu
  By: Brian C. Shaw
• April 26, 2019 Corporate Social Responsibility Practice in Bhutan
  By: Jigme Phuntsho, Sonam Zangmo
• April 26, 2019 Perceived Sources of Happiness: Things Bhutanese think would make them live a truly happy life
  By: Karma Wangdi
• April 26, 2019 Economic Growth, External Debt and Export Relationship: The Case of Bhutan
  By: Jigme Nidup
• April 26, 2019 Inequality in Bhutan: Addressing it Through the Traditional Kidu System
  By: Lhawang Ugyel
• November 06, 2018 A Note on Tsangmo, a Bhutanese Quatrain
  By: Dorji Penjore
• November 06, 2018 Power and Compliance in Rural Bhutanese Society
  By: Fredrik Barth
• November 06, 2018 Wikipedia as a Tool for GNH
  By: Bunty Avieson
• November 06, 2018 Spirituality in Management Education
  By: Karma Ura
• November 06, 2018 Buddhist Contributions to Human Development
  By: Tshering Tobgay
• November 06, 2018 Causes and Conditions of Bhutan’s Democratic Transition
  By: Dorji Penjore
• November 06, 2018 Rhetoric and Reality of Doklam Incident
  By: Jigme Phuntsho
• November 06, 2018 Bhutan’s Faustian Bargain?
  By: William J. Long
• November 06, 2018 Risk Factors Associated with Lifetime Prevalence of Suicidal Ideation and Attempts Amongst the Bhutanese Population
  By: Tshoki Zangmo, Tandin Dendup
• March 16, 2018 A Philosophical Exploration of Radical Forgiveness
  By: William J. Long
• March 16, 2018 Interpreting the GNH Determinants From Health Policy Perspective: A Guide for Health Policy Makers
  By: Gyambo Sithey, Jayendra Sharma, Tandi Dorji, Anne-Marie, Mu Li
• March 16, 2018 Digging the Past: The State of Archaeological Study of Bhutan
  By: Dorji Penjore
• June 19, 2017 College Youth and the Prevalence of Responsible Sexual Relationships: A Mixed Mode Study of the Development, Challenges and Prospects of Youth Sexual Behaviour in the Colleges of the Royal University of Bhutan
  By: Amina Gurung, Ugyen Wangchuk, Dechen Tshomo, Tsering Y. Nidup
• June 19, 2017 Socioeconomic Determinants of Fertility in Thimphu City: The Effect of Baby Sitter
  By: Wangchuk
• June 19, 2017 Factors Affecting Bhutanese Teachers’ Attitude Towards Acceptance of Technology in Teaching
  By: Sherab Tenzin, Rinzin Dorji
• June 19, 2017 The First British Book about Bhutan: A Publishing History of Turner’s Account of an Embassy
  By: Trevor Lipscombe
• November 29, 2016 Guru Padmasambhava of Odiyana (Odisha): The Founder of Lamaism in Tibet
  By: Bimalendu Mohanty, Varish Panigrahi
• November 29, 2016 Guru Padmasambhava in Context: Archaeological and Historical Evidence from Swat/Uddiyana (c. 8th century CE)
  By: Luca Maria Olivieri
• February 12, 2016 Use of Social Media and Digital Technology from the Perspective of Citizen Engagement and Democratic Participation in the Works of Centre for Bhutan Studies & GNH Studies: A Positioning Paper
  By: Dendup Chophel
• February 12, 2016 The Role of Deliberative Mini-Publics in the Quest for Gross National Happiness in Bhutan
  By: Gerard W. Horgan
• February 12, 2016 Enhancing Bhutanese Rice in the Domestic Market through increased Production and Favorable Pricing Regime
  By: Ngawang Chhogyel, Mahesh Ghimiray, Kencho Wangdue, Yadunath Bajgai
• February 12, 2016 Export Price of Electricity in Bhutan: The Case of Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Project
  By: Sangay Chophel
• September 28, 2015 Estimating the Gender Gap of Adults’ Education and Health in Bhutan
  By: Chhimi Dem
• September 28, 2015 Ahom-Bhutan Relations with Specific Reference to Royal Bhutanese Embassy Visiting Ahom Capital in 1801
  By: J. N. Phukan
• September 28, 2015 Traditional and Modern Understandings of Mental Illness in Bhutan: Preserving the Benefits of Each to Support Gross National Happiness
  By: Joseph D. Calabrese, Chencho Dorji
• September 28, 2014 Masked Dance of Sumthrang Mountain Deity
  By: Gengop Karchung
• September 28, 2014 An Overview of Kurtöp Morphophonemics
  By: Gwendolyn Hyslop
• September 28, 2014 Visions, Prophecies and Leadership: Oral Accounts of the Life and Death of Terton Drukdra Dorji
  By: Thinley Jamtsho, Dendup Chophel, Sangay Thinley
• September 28, 2014 Early Happiness Policy as a Government Mission of Bhutan: A Survey of the Bhutanese Unwritten Constitution from 1619 to 1729
  By: Michael Givel, Laura Figueroa
• September 28, 2014 Suicide Trends in Bhutan from 2009 to 2013
  By: Kuenzang Lhadon
• March 01, 2014 Traditional and Modern Understandings of Mental Illness in Bhutan: Preserving the Benefits of Each to Support Gross National Happiness
  By: Joseph D. Calabrese, Chencho Dorji
• March 01, 2014 Suicide Trends in Bhutan from 2009 to 2013
  By: Kuenzang Lhadon
• March 01, 2014 Ahom-Bhutan Relations with Specific Reference to Royal Bhutanese Embassy Visiting Ahom Capital in 1801
  By: J. N. Phukan
• March 01, 2014 Estimating the Gender Gap of Adults’ Education and Health in Bhutan
  By: Eleanore Ardemagni
• October 01, 2013 A Proposition “Bhutan is a Democracy”: Beyond the Constricted, Popular Wisdom of “Democracy”
  By: Katsu Masaki
• October 01, 2013 Was Tobacco Described in Bhutanese Buddhist Texts Before the 16th Century?
  By: Michael Givel, Rebecca A. Sherry
• October 01, 2013 Examining Rupee Reserves in Bhutan: An SVAR Approach
  By: Jigme Nidup
• October 01, 2013 Factorial Validity and Reliability of 12 items General Health Questionnaire in a Bhutanese Population
  By: Tshoki Zangmo
• March 01, 2013 The Role of English in Culture Preservation in Bhutan
  By: Dorji Thinley, T. W. Maxwell
• March 01, 2013 Diversity in Food Ways of Bhutanese Communities Brought About by Ethnicity and Environment
  By: Kunzang Dorji, Kesang Choden, Walter Roder
• March 01, 2013 Exploring Bhutan’s ‘Natural Democracy’: In Search of an Alternative View of Democracy
  By: Katsu Masaki
• March 01, 2013 Wangdü Chöling Dzong: The Masterpiece of Gongsar Jigme Namgyel
  By: Gengop Karchung
• March 01, 2013 The Old Man ‘Mitshering’ at Nyima Lung Monastery
  By: Tenzin Jamtsho
• October 01, 2012 Massive Rice Offering in Wangdiphodrang in Zhabdrung Rinpoche’s Time
  By: Dasho Karma Ura
• October 01, 2012 GNH, EI and the well-being of Nations: Lessons for public policy makers, with specific reference to the happiness dividend of tourism
  By: Shaun Vorster
• October 01, 2012 The ethics platform in tourism research: A Western Australian perspective of Bhutan’s GNH Tourism Model
  By: Simon Teoh
• October 01, 2012 In-service Training: Key to Enhancing Competence and Building Confidence for Job Performance of Gewog-level Extension Agents in Bhutan
  By: Samdrup Rigyal
• March 01, 2012 Ladakhi and Bhutanese Enclaves in Tibet
  By: John Bray
• March 01, 2012 Population History and Identity in the Hidden Land of Pemakö
  By: Kerstin Grothmann
• March 01, 2012 Under the Influence of Buddhism: The Psychological Wellbeing Indicators of GNH
  By: Tashi Wangmo, John Valk
• March 01, 2012 Culture, Public Policy and Happiness
  By: Sangay Chophel
• March 01, 2012 Trend of Bhutan’s Trade during 1907-26: Export
  By: Ratna Sarkar, Indrajit Ray
• October 01, 2011 A Zhabdrung Phunsum Tshogpa (zhabs drung phun sum tshogs pa) Thangka from the National Museum of Bhutan Collection∗
  By: Ariana Maki
• October 01, 2011 Meme Lama Sonam Zangpo’s Kurseong Years: A Note on Factors in the Foundation of a Modern Bhutanese Religious Community outside of Bhutan
  By: Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
• October 01, 2011 From Mount Tsari to the tsechu: Bhutan’s Sacred Song and Lute Dance
  By: Elaine Dobson
• October 01, 2011 Invoking a Warrior Deity: A Preliminary Study of Lo-ju
  By: Dendup Chophel