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Bhutan   /bˌutˈæn/  /bətˈɑn/   Listen
Bhutan

noun
1.
A landlocked principality in the Himalayas to the northeast of India.  Synonym: Kingdom of Bhutan.



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"Bhutan" Quotes from Famous Books



... the side of the Yellow Caps before the fall of Galdan. The Dalai Lama was their great spiritual head, and his triumph had been assisted by the intervention and influence of the Manchu emperor. The Red Caps were driven out of the country into Bhutan, where they still hold sway. After this success a new functionary, with both civil and military authority, was appointed to carry on the administration, under the orders of the Dalai Lama, who was supposed to be lost in his spiritual speculations and religious ...
— China • Demetrius Charles Boulger

... Island Bangladesh Barbados Bassas da India Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian Ocean Territory British Virgin Islands Brunei Bulgaria ...
— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... flowing down from the Himalaya to join in the far distance the mighty Mother Ganges. Then its eye might have ranged over the vast forest which clothes in dense green mantle the plain at the foot of the mountains from Nepal to Bhutan and Assam, and from the plain spreads up on the mountain-sides themselves and reaches to the very borders of eternal snow. Over this vast forest with its treasures of tree and plant, animal and insect ...
— The Heart of Nature - or, The Quest for Natural Beauty • Francis Younghusband

... Guthrie, British resident in North Bhutan, was a big, thick-set man—gray-haired and florid, with widely opened eyes of the true fighting blue, a bristling mustache and prominent shaggy brows. Nayland Smith introduced himself tersely, proffering his card ...
— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer

... (brought from a fort in Bhutan, where they were taken as plunder) exceedingly well coloured, and richly illumined. Some of the deities resemble those of the Tartars, delineated by the traveller Pallas; others again are pure Hindu and many Chinese; but the most ...
— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho



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