The Bhutan national anthem, “Druk Tsendhen” (The Thunder Dragon Kingdom), celebrates the national pride and unity of the Bhutanese nation. Below are the original lyrics in Dzongkha and their English translation.
Additional Information
- Anthem Name: Druk Tsendhen (The Thunder Dragon Kingdom)
- Written Date: 1953
- Lyricist: Gyaldun Thinley Dorji
- Composer: Aku Tongmi
- Official Adoption Date: 1953
Original Lyrics in Dzongkha
སྒྲོལ་མེད་བསྟན་པ་གསུམ་འབུམ་རྩལ་གཞུང་གི་བོད་མི་དང་།
སྐྱབས་གསུང་མགོན་དུ་གྱུར་རོ།
སྲས་སྒྲུང་དེ་གསར་གསུངས་ཞིང་སྐུ་བཅུག་རྒྱ་མཚོ་རྒྱལ་གྱུར་རོ།
སྐྱབས་བཅུད་རྒྱལ་ལམ་དེའི་སྒྲོལ་མེད་རྒྱལ་བ་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱས།
English Translation of the Lyrics
Here is the Bhutan national anthem English version. “Druk Tsendhen” reflects the pride and unity of Bhutan. Below is the English translation of the lyrics.
In the thunder dragon kingdom
Where the reign of the Druk has spread,
The teachings of the sage Lord Buddha flourish
May the people of the dragon kingdom
Happiness and peace prevail,
May the teachings of the blissful one
Guide us through the path of righteousness.
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