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Mandala Collections Audio-Video

05 Jul 2018
9 min 4 sec
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Creators: 
Norzin Lhamo

This story conveys the message that it is important to think before acting, through the account of a younger brother who didn't properly consider his elder brother and neglected him.

༉  དང་ཕུའི་དུས་ལུ་ ང་བཅས་རའི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ དམག་དང་རྩུབ་སྤྱོད་ལ་སོགས་པའི་བྱ་སྟབས་མ་བདེཝ་ལེ་ཤ་བྱུང་མི་ཚུ་ ཁ་ལས་སླབ་ནི་རྐྱངམ་ཅིག་མེན་པར་ སེམས་ཁར་དྲན་དགོཔ་དེ་ཡང་ གནམ་མེ་ས་མེད་ཁག་ཆེ་ཏོག་ཏོ་ཅིག་ཨིནམ་ལས་ ཚོར་བ་དང་དུས་ཚོད་ཚུ་སེམས་ཁར་དྲན་ཐབས་ལུ་ ང་བཅས་རའི་ཕམ་ཚུ་གིས་ ཧེ་མ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ ལོ་རྒྱུས་དང་སྲུང་འདི་ཚུ་གཏང་ནི་ཡོད་རུང་ དུས་ཚོད་ཀྱི་འགྱུར་བ་དང་འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་ ལོ་ངོ་དག་པ་ཅིག་གི་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ར་ ལམ་སྲོལ་འདི་ཚུ་ཉམས་ཡར་སོངཔ་སྦེ་མཐོངམ་མས། ད་རེས་ནངས་པར་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ལས་ སྲུང་འདི་ཚུ་ཀི་དེབ་དང་ ཡང་ན་གློག་བརྙན་གྱི་ཐོག་ལས་སྦེ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་སྲུང་གཏང་ནིའི་སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་འདི་སོར་ཡར་སོང་རུང་ སྲུང་ཉན་ནི་འདི་མ་ཉམས་པར་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན། སྲུང་ལས་བརྟེན་ ང་བཅས་ཀྱིས་ཡོན་ཏན་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་ཤེས་ཚུགསཔ་མ་ཚད་ སེམས་ཁར་སྤྲོ་བ་ཡང་འབྱུང་བཅུགཔ་ཨིན། སྲུང་ག་ཅི་བཟུམ་ཅིག་གཏང་རུང་ གནད་དོན་རེ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ གཙོ་བོ་ར་སྲུང་གཏང་ནི་འདི་ ང་བཅས་ར་ལུ་གོ་བརྡ་སྤྲོད་ཐབས་ཀྱི་དོན་ལུ་དང་ སྲུང་ཉན་ཚར་བའི་བསྒང་ལས་ མི་ཚུའི་སེམས་ཀྱི་མནོ་ཐངས་ཚུ་ལེགས་བཅོས་འབད་ནི་ལ་སོགས་པའི་ཁེ་ཕན་ཚུ་འབྱུངམ་ཨིན། དེ་བཟུམ་སྦེ་ ད་ལྟོའི་སྲུང་འདི་ནང་ ང་བཅས་ར་ག་ར་འབད་རུང་ ལཱ་མ་འབད་བའི་སྔོན་ལས་ མནོ་བསམ་ལེགས་ཤོམ་གཏང་དགོ་ ཟེར་བའི་དོན་སྟོནམ་ཨིན་མས།

Oral Cultures of Bhutan
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  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    Once upon a time, In a village there were two brothers. And after that when they both got married, they seperated and started to live independently.
    Because of his faith, the elder brother became poor and the younger brother became rich. So, one day the elder brother went to help his younger brother for paddy plantation. He [elder brother] worked for whole day, which means to put "phewrey" [a tool used to plain a surface before planting peddy.]
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    At the end of the day, they finish planting. In evening, no boby from his brother's family asked him
    for food. Even his [elder brother] family didn't keep food for him thinking he might have taken at his younger brother's place.
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    Since he was very hungry, he got very angry. He took the "Phewrey" [a tool used to plain a surface before planting paddy] on his shoulder and went back to his brother's field and started to destroy the plantation.
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    When he was about to finish the distruction, though left with two terraces. Suddenly, a black man appeared and said; "This is my landlord's field. why are you doing this?" The elder brother asked; "who are you?" The black man said; "I am your brother's bhavi." ]
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    The elder brother asked; "If you are my brother's bhavi, then where is my bhavi?" He [elder brother] caught his [black man] hair and asked to show his bhavi. The man [black man] said; "I will show your bhavi. Now you don't return to home, you go to east direction. After three days who ever you meet on the way will be your bhavi."
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    So, he went to the east as directed by the black man. That night he took shelter under an orange tree. The orange tree asked; "See traveller, where are you going?" He narrates the whole story and said; " I am going to meet my bhavi within three days and I want to ask him why I am not blessed with good fate?"
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    The orange tree said; "Oh! you are going to meet your bhavi. I also have a message. Can you ask your bhavi why I am not able to keep hold of fruits untill it gets rippen. what is my sin?"
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    The next morning, he left and come across the king's place. He stays at King's place for a night. The King asked him at night, "See traveller, where are you going?" He said; "I have become poor because my bhavi have not blessed me with good fate, so I am going to meet my bhavi."
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    The King said; " Oh! you are going to meet your bhavi. I also have a message. It has been 12 years since I started to built my house, I am still not able to complete it. when I build at one side, the other side gets damaged and vis-versa. What is my sin? Can you ask your bhavi about it, Please."
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    He spent one night beneath an Orange tree, the second night at King's palace and he was told that he is going to meet his bhavi the third day.
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    While going, he met a fox on the way. He said to the fox; "why are you running? just wait!" Then he realized that the fox was his only bhavi. He asked to the fox; "your my bhavi. I have reached to this condition, why are you not looking after my welfare? I came here to talk with you."
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    The fox said; "Oh! you have come. It's ok but your house has been put on fire ever since you destroy your brother's plantation. He [younger brother] even chased away your family. Now you go back and take a shelter, two yards away before reaching your house. Clean/paint the place with a fresh cowdung and wish whatever you like to in the night. Everything will be fine the next morning. This is only what i have for you." The time has come for the fox to leave.
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    Again he asked about the message sent by an Orange tree. Fox said; "Oh! tell the orange tree that somebody has hidden diamond and gold under that Orange tree. Because of it's rediation, the fruits are not able to ripe."
    Again he asked about the message sent by the King. The fox said; "King has five daughters. The elder daughter is blessed with good karma.
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    Rest of the daughters were married. The King has kept his elder daughter at home beacuse she is blessed. Because of not letting his elder daughter get married, the king has been cursed.
    Daughters are supposed to leave their home after marriage. If only the king let his daughter get married, then only his house will be completed."
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    After that he [elder brother/ traveller] returned and stays at the palace. He conveys the message to King that the fox have told. The next morning, he was married to the King's daughter and gave away with all the wealth [An elephants and horses.] The next day he took shelter under an Orange tree. He [elder brother] started to dig. The King's daughter asked; "what is not enough for you? My father has given us eveything that we need. what are you looking for?"
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    At night he found those hidden diamonds and gold and took to his home. Before reaching to home, he did as what the fox has told him to do. The next day when he reached his home, to his suprise the house has become beautiful filled with lights, like the king's palace with lots of wealth [An elephants and horses.]
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    Then, The younger brother saw it and got suprised and ask his brother, How it happened? The elder brother shared everything to his younger brother, how he has treated him before. He narrates the whole thing and says this is my share. Soon after he finish hearing the story, he couldn't take it to heart/bear the pain. At first he killed his children, then his wife and he killed himself at last.
  • Karna Kumar Ghalley
    This is an old tale and I want to end this tale here only.
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Oral Cultures of Bhutan
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Creator: 
Norzin Lhamo
Editor: 
Rinchen Dorji
Contributing Contributor: 
Karna Kumar Ghalley
Publisher: 
Tibetan and Himalayan Library
Sponsor: 
Arcadia Fund (Other)
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