THIMPHU ---Responding to one of the graduates' question on the form of monarchy in Bhutan before it was reinstated as the constitutional democratic monarchy at the ongoing National Graduates Orientation Program (NGOP) in Thimphu, former chairperson of the National Council, Dasho Sonam Kinga said that Bhutan's monarchy was unique but never absolute. "Today we talk of the separation of religion and politics. But Bhutanese state foundation is the interdependence of the spiritual and the secular," he said. Bhutanese kingship was Buddhist kingship and is Buddhist kingship but it does not exclude religion and politics, he said. Taking the graduates through five different forms of monarchy,...
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