The Raven Crown (Dzongkha: དབུ་ཞྭ་བྱ་རོག་ཅན་; Wylie: dbu-zha bja-rog-chen)[1] is worn by the Kings of Bhutan. It is a hat surmounted by the head of a raven.
^Olschak, Blanche Christine (1979). Ancient Bhutan: a study on early Buddhism in the Himâlayas. Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research. p. 37. ISBN 9783855151011. Retrieved 2011-02-12.
RavenCrown (Dzongkha: དབུ་ཞྭ་བྱ་རོག་ཅན་; Wylie: dbu-zha bja-rog-chen) is worn by the Kings of Bhutan. It is a hat surmounted by the head of a raven....
The common raven (Corvus corax) is a large all-black passerine bird. It is the most widely distributed of all corvids, found across the Northern Hemisphere...
believed to protect the Crown and the Tower; a superstition holds that "if the Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain...
Namgyel Wangchuck, the fifth Druk Gyalpo. He wears the RavenCrown, which is the official crown worn by the kings of Bhutan. He is correctly styled "Mi'wang...
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references to ravens exist in world lore and literature. Most depictions allude to the appearance and behavior of the wide-ranging common raven (Corvus corax)...
the RavenCrown of the Wangchuck Dynasty. He then received another Dar Na Nga for his bride and bestowed it on her, along with the Phoenix Crown of the...
[15] Nu.500 155 x 70 mm Pink, orange and green Ugyen Wangchuck with the RavenCrown Punakha Dzong 2006 2011 November 20, 2006 Jigme Singye Wangchuk [16]...
the raven. As noted above, it the most prominent component of the royal crown. In Bhutan, the raven represents the deity Gonpo Jarodongchen, the raven-headed...
Lama). Kegan Paul; 1st edition (May 1989). ISBN 978-0-7103-0328-8. The RavenCrown: The Origins of Buddhist Monarchy in Bhutan (Hardcover). Serindia Publications...
Monarchy in Bhutan. Lham Dorji Queens of Bhutan Aris, Michael (1994). The RavenCrown: The Origins of Buddhist Monarchy in Bhutan. London: Serindia Publications...
also modernized its legal codes. The Third King died in 1972, and the RavenCrown passed to the 16-year-old Jigme Singye Wangchuck. The Fourth King was...
ba'i sgron me. Thimphu: National Library. Michael, Aris (2005). The RavenCrown: The Origins of Buddhist Monarchy in Bhutan (2 ed.). Chicago: Serindia...
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1651–1728" (pp. 257–258) Rose 1977, pp. 70, 80 Aris, Michael (2005). The RavenCrown: The Origins of Buddhist Monarchy in Bhutan. Chicago: Serindia Publications...
closely related to, but generally smaller than, crows and ravens (Corvus). They have a blackish crown, wings, and tail, with the rest of their plumage paler...
cultural and/or political influence there. Aris, Michael (2005). The RavenCrown: The Origins of Buddhist Monarchy in Bhutan. Chicago: Serindia Publications...
dons a special diadem known as the "RavenCrown", symbolic not merely of his own authority, but also of the raven-faced protector deity of Bhutan, Legoen...
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cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. In...
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