In Bhutanese culture, one is expected to think about death five times a day.
Some recent research suggests that, by thinking about death so often, the Bhutanese may be on to something.
The child in question is a northern Bhutanese from Benji's wife's village who he is educating.
It is premature to see the Bhutanese as Himalayan versions of the oil-rich Gulf Arabs.
The Bhutanese banned the Hindu settlers from moving to the northern Buddhist parts of the country.
Even exiles say that for many years the northern Bhutanese made Herculean efforts to integrate southerners.
Inspired by the example of the Divine Madman, Bhutanese men still enjoy firing arrows over great distances.
Bhutanese archery is a highly sociable, often alcohol-fuelled affair with a hint of amiable danger thrown in.
More than 100, 000 ethnic Nepali Bhutanese fled or were expelled from the country in the early 1990s.
Sangay Zam, a member of parliament, stresses that many Bhutanese do still revere and value the marriage institution.
And with 90% of the population in peasant agriculture, most Bhutanese remain poor.
After complaints from yak herders, the Bhutanese banned foreign climbers from crawling up the face of their sacred mountains.
Koirala's declaration in the Nepalese parliament in August 1993 that 15% of the people in the camps are not Bhutanese.
Breaking stones by the road in sullen drudgery for two dollars a day, they are an unhappy contrast with the gaily-clad Bhutanese.
Not that they admit to being superstitious: Bhutanese prefer to think of themselves as being fine-tuned to the invisible forces of nature.
In the 1900s, a Bhutanese "baron" won the right to tax Nepalese who were settling and farming Bhutan's sparsely populated southern plains.
The elected National Assembly now has the right to demand his abdication in a confidence vote, if that's what the Bhutanese people want.
It was here, the Bhutanese believe, that Guru Padmasambava, the wizard-saint of Himalayan Buddhism, went to meditate after alighting on his flying tiger.
He is also accessible: any Bhutanese citizen can receive an audience.
Does Mr. Laird adequately reflect this Bhutanese version in his story?
The Bhutanese read many evil portents into the Tiger's Lair attack.
It halted Nepali instruction in the schools, and required all citizens to don the traditional robe of the northern Bhutanese when visiting government facilities or attending public gatherings.
"The US and many other international communities do believe that Bhutan has a moral obligation with people who are genuinely Bhutanese citizens, to let them come home, " she said.
The highest-ranking Bhutanese of Nepalese descent in government, he reminds me that despite the exodus, one quarter of Bhutan's civil servants are of Nepalese descent, as is 30% of the population.
Ms Sauerbrey said the resettlement could resolve a major part of the problem but there were people in the camps who were genuinely Bhutanese citizens and would very much like to come home.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Robin Raphel characterizes the talks as "too slow, " but won't describe the people in the camps as "Bhutanese refugees, " saying this is the very point being negotiated.
During his one-week visit to Bhutan, Mr. Laird was informed by Bhutanese officials that it was the objective of the dissidents to gather 100, 000 ethnic Nepalese in the refugee camps in Nepal as Bhutanese refugees in order to attract international attention and support.
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