History

The History of Bhutan is long and yet to be studied or documented properly for the outside world. However, most of the important things are written and preserved in Books, Murals, and Scriptures here. The country or settlement here is said to have been established in the period of 100 to 600 AD. The region as it is of today was unified and stated as Drukyul or the country of Drukpa since the 17th century.

Since then there have been multiple power shifts, the major of which stayed with the establishment of hereditary monarchy in 1907 from the first Druk Gyalpo Ugyen Wangchuck. The English name Bhutan only arrived in the latter half of the 19th century. Buddhism arrived in Bhutan in the 7th century and it spread with the arrival of Great Buddhist Saint Padmasambhava in 747ad. Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck is the Dragon King or the fifth Druk Gyalpo now after his father in 2006.