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Audio-Video provides a repository for audio and video recordings documenting Bhutanese oral and embodied cultural traditions, including searchable transcripts. These recordings originate from dispersed mountain communities across Bhutan and present traditions across a diverse genre.

Texts include essays on various genres of oral traditions in Bhutan, as well as other cultural subjects. Each text is linked to relevant places and subjects, such that users can explore the rich tapestry of Bhutanese culture through different media.

Images provides visual documentation of Bhutanese culture, environment, and places, thus allowing for a deep understanding of the varied contexts of Bhutanese culture. Each image’s description also links to relevant places and subjects that offer related resources.

Places offers descriptions and mapping of Bhutanese communities, temples, administrative units, mountains, lakes, and much more. Each place has its own self-contained website potentially presenting structured descriptions, essays, and a variety of media.

Subjects details richly annotated typologies of Bhutanese knowledge subjects. Like Places, each subject has its own self-contained website potentially presenting structured descriptions, essays, and a variety of media. At the heart is an encyclopedia of oral traditions.