Why is Bhutan called the Land of Thunder Dragon?
“The legend goes that when the great Tibetan saint Tshampa Gyarey Yeshey Dorji (AD 1161-1211) was consecrating a new monastery in Tibet he heard thunder which he believed to be the voice of a dragon (Druk in Bhutanese), loudly proclaiming the great truths of the Buddhist teachings. He named the monastery Druk, and the religious sect he founded “Drukpa Kagyugpa”. When this school of Mahayana Buddhism became Bhutan’s state religion in the 17th century, the country was named Druk Yul, or the Land of the Thunder Dragon.
