305-year-old tradition soldiers on
Initiated by the third reincarnation of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, Thuktrul Jigme Drakpa, the old ways live on Talo Tshechu: Every year, two weeks before the annual Talo tshechu in Punakha begins, a group of lay monks and elderly women gather below the Talo goenpa and practice mask dances and folk songs. It is not that there is no other space
