Bhutan Heritage Architecture & Context
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Monuments Inventory

6,795 records of temples, dzongs, monasteries, chortens, fortresses, and sacred sites across Bhutan. Many sites appear more than once, each time with a different source's account. Browse by region on the map, filter and search below, and open any record to read its full account.

Records

6,795 entries

4,567 distinct sites · 230 sources · avg. account 364 chars

By region (top 12)

Bumthang1,645
Paro967
Thimphu897
Outside Bhutan580
Wangdue Phodrang513
Punakha406
Trongsa402
Chukha247
Haa222
Location not determinable from the source190
Trashigang155
Dagana104

Length of source accounts

<1002,232
100–2501,833
250–5001,275
500–1k945
1k–2k383
2k+127

Characters per account

Most-recorded sources

468 Seeds of Faith. vol. 1: pt. 11331
568 Ura. Bhutan, The Unremembered Nation. vol. 2. …157
260 Lonely Planet. Bhutan. (2011): pt. 10133
567 Ura. Bhutan, The Unremembered Nation. vol. 2. …133
402 Pommaret. Bhoutan. (2010): pt. 06110
246 Lonely Planet. Bhutan. (2010): part 3, pt. 0284
408 Pommaret. Bhutan Insight Pocket Guide: pt. 0280
367 Phuntsho. The History of Bhutan. Random. (2013…80
558 Ura. Bhutan, The Unremembered Nation. vol. 2. …79
614 Yeshi. Sumtrhang Monastic Landscape. (2019): p…77

Distribution at a glance

Two views of the same inventory. Hover for exact counts; click any block or cell to filter the records below.

Records by type

Region × type — where each kind of monument is recorded

Browse by region

Gasa73Lhuntse103T.yangtse63Haa222Paro967Thimphu897Punakha406Bumthang1,645Mongar78T.gang155Samtse19Chukha247Dagana104Wangdue513Trongsa402P.gatshel46Tsirang13Sarpang24Zhemgang32S.Jongkhar8
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All regions

6,795 records across 24 regions

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Browse & search records

Search matches site names, places, and types. Tick full accounts to search the descriptions too, or group identical sites to collapse a site's multiple source accounts into a single stack. Click a column header to sort, or any chart above to filter.
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