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Ur-urpa with Seeds

This game is played by children and cowherders in eastern Bhutan. A flat panel wood is attached to string and made to swing swiftly in the air. In another version, the string is put through hole made in the think wooden or bamboo panel and when the string is pulled from two ends, the panel makes a sound ur ur before the tension of the twisted thread is fully released.

  • འུར་འུར་པ། (Dzongkha, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > Ur-urpa with Seeds (English, Latin script, Translation)
    • > 'ur 'ur pa (Dzongkha, Latin script, THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > ur ur pa (Dzongkha, Latin script, THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
Subject ID: S7764