{"id":7586,"date":"2026-04-06T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/?p=7586"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:02:48","slug":"das-spirituelle-herz-bhutans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/2026\/04\/06\/das-spirituelle-herz-bhutans\/","title":{"rendered":"The spiritual heart of Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last two days were dedicated to the Bumthang district, considered the “spiritual heart” of the country: It is home to Bhutan’s oldest temples, and is also believed to be the birthplace of Buddhism in Bhutan.<\/p>\n

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\nThis blog entry is an abridged version of the original entry in German<\/a>. <\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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\n(*)<\/a> Hierbei ist “Gebirge” im \u00f6sterreichischen Wortsinn zu verstehen. F\u00fcr bhutanesische Verh\u00e4ltnisse sind “H\u00fcgel” von rund 3.000 Metern H\u00f6he nichts Besonderes.<\/p>\n

\n(**)<\/a> Im Buddhismus gilt 108 als eine Art heilige Zahl. Es gibt verschiedene Erkl\u00e4rungen f\u00fcr die Bedeutung; unser Reiseleiter hat es uns wie folgt erz\u00e4hlt: 1 steht f\u00fcr den einen Buddha, 0 f\u00fcr dessen Reinheit (d.h. keine negativen Eigenschaften), und 8 f\u00fcr die acht Gebote Buddhas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch. (*) Hierbei ist “Gebirge” im \u00f6sterreichischen Wortsinn zu verstehen. F\u00fcr bhutanesische Verh\u00e4ltnisse sind “H\u00fcgel” von rund 3.000 Metern H\u00f6he nichts Besonderes. (**) Im Buddhismus gilt 108 als eine Art heilige Zahl. Es gibt verschiedene Erkl\u00e4rungen f\u00fcr die Bedeutung; unser Reiseleiter hat es uns wie folgt erz\u00e4hlt: 1 steht f\u00fcr den … Continue reading The spiritual heart of Bhutan<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[75,77,128,58],"class_list":["post-7586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-diary","tag-food","tag-land-und-leute","tag-temples-sacred-sites","tag-hiking","trips-bhutan2026","country-bt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}