
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Bhutan is a landlocked country in the eastern Himalaya, best known as a Buddhist kingdom where the policy of ‘Gross National Happiness’ replaced GDP. Anthropologist and linguist Mark Turin documents the country’s endangered oral traditions. Can Bhutan’s languages and cultures be preserved in the face global influences through television and the internet?
By BBC World Service4.1
1313 ratings
Bhutan is a landlocked country in the eastern Himalaya, best known as a Buddhist kingdom where the policy of ‘Gross National Happiness’ replaced GDP. Anthropologist and linguist Mark Turin documents the country’s endangered oral traditions. Can Bhutan’s languages and cultures be preserved in the face global influences through television and the internet?

7,595 Listeners

1,055 Listeners

5,459 Listeners

1,803 Listeners

1,751 Listeners

1,042 Listeners

2,090 Listeners

908 Listeners

3,193 Listeners

723 Listeners

1,027 Listeners

15,502 Listeners

800 Listeners

0 Listeners