Bhutanese traditional arts and crafts are more than just artistic expressions; they embody the country’s identity, values, and spiritual principles. However, despite their authenticity, these crafts ...

Two weeks before my first International Folk Art Market as executive director, I got an unexpected email. I was invited by the U.S. Embassy in India to speak about female entrepreneurship in Bhutan, ...

Casey Hartnett gave up a career in finance to travel the world without a plan — just guided by his spirit. “If something felt good, then that’s the path I chose,” Hartnet says. “I just kept following ...

Art Wolfe finds a photographer’s nirvana in Bhutan. Known as the Land of the Thunder Dragon, Bhutan has survived in isolation for more than a thousand years. As this enlightened Buddhist kingdom ...

The Earth has been a very giving planet. Everything humans have needed to survive, and thrive, is provided by the natural world around us: food, water, fresh air, energy, medicine, materials for ...

The Lhakhang brings the art and architecture of an isolated Himalayan kingdom to the center of the University of Texas at El Paso campus. The story of how Bhutanese architecture came to dominate the ...

" The Dragon's Gift offers a rare opportunity to introduce, to the wider international audience, some of the most sacred Buddhist images of Bhutan. From the wealth of material surveyed, the organizers ...

Traveling to Bhutan is not for the faint-hearted. The upfront cost—a Sustainable Development Fee of USD100 per day, per person, cuts deep into the budget, and the journey from Manila must be timed ...