Rinzin Rinzin

Rinzin Rinzin (born October 24, 1969 in Kurtoe Goenpakap , Lhuntse , Bhutan ) is a Bhutanese author and former member of the National Assembly of Bhutan.

Life

Rinzin Rinzin was born in 1969 as the son of a modest weaver family in the remote village of Kurtoe Goenpakap (alternative name: Kurtoe Goenkar) in Dzongkhag Lhuntse in Eastern Bhutan. At the age of four he began his first training as a gomchen ( Buddhist lay monk) in his home village. At the age of seven he was the family cowherd. In 1978 he and his younger sister were among the first children in his village to be educated at a school based on the Western model. He attended various schools in eastern, southern and western Bhutan. After completing his secondary school education ( higher secondary school ) he took up agricultural studies focusing Livestock and Food, which he at the Central Luzon State University in the Philippines and at the University of Melbourne , Australia , graduated.

He began his civil servant career in 1997 as a lecturer at the Natural Resources Training Institute (the current - as of 2014 - Collage of Natural Resources ). Until March 2013 he was responsible for research programs and a member of the first democratically elected National Assembly of Bhutan in the further course of his career in the public service . Rinzin Rinzin served as Bhutan's main research scientist at the SAARC Agricultural Information Center in Dhaka , Bangladesh , and as the national contact person for pasture issues at the International Center for Large-Scale Mountain Development in Kathmandu , Nepal . He then worked as an independent consultant and occasional author and is now devoting himself to further studies.

Rinzin Rinzin is married to a businesswoman from his home district of Lhuntse. The couple have three sons and one daughter. From his first marriage, Rinzin Rinzin has another son.

Publications

In his publications, Rinzin Rinzin processes stories and narratives that he got to know in his childhood. This conveyed to him the beliefs of the Bhutanese rural population, their traditions, values and way of life.

His first book, the story collection The Talisman of Good Fortune and Other Stories from Rural Bhutan ( German Good Luck Chuck and other stories from the rural Bhutan ), wrote Rinzin Rinzin 2001 during a winter stay in Melbourne to - as he states himself - not by homesickness to be overwhelmed. The eponymous story was the basis for the Bhutanese feature film Golden Cup - The Legacy , which was released in 2007. Another story from this collection, Samphel's Pride and Woes ( German: Samphel's pride and hardship ), was included in the curriculum of secondary schools by the Bhutanese Ministry of Education in 2005.

Rinzin Rinzin is the author of several illustrated children's books based on Bhutanese folk fables.

Further publications (selection):

The pheasant takes the snake to court , folk tale from Bhutan (2014), ISBN 9789993661917 .

The Story of the Raven and the Owl , folk tale from Bhutan (2015), ISBN 9993661945 , ISBN 9789993661948 .

The Eggs to the Rescue , folk tale from Bhutan (2015), ISBN 978999366192.

Depa Bondeypa's Relatives (2016), ISBN 9789993661955 .

literature

Rinzin Rinzin: The Talisman of Good Fortune and Other Stories from Rural Bhutan . Second ed.Printed at KMT Printing Press, Thimphu, Bhutan 2014, ISBN 99936-619-0-2 , p. 168 (with biographical information).

Web links

Despite many challanges Bhutanese authors still writes books. Interview with Rinzin Rinzin in the Bhutan Times , August 30, 2015. In: www.pressreader.com. Retrieved November 11, 2017 .

Individual evidence

↑ Rinzin Rinzin. WRITE Foundation (Writers Readers Illustrators Translators and Educators Foundation) of the SAARC , accessed on 12 November 2017 (English).
↑ Despite many challenges Bhutanese authors still writes books. Interview with Rinzin Rinzin in the Bhutan Times , August 30, 2015. In: www.pressreader.com. Retrieved November 11, 2017 .
↑ Golden Cup: The Legacy; Bhutanese film. In: Blog at WordPress.com. June 8, 2011, accessed November 11, 2017 . , Golden Cup - The Legacy. Movie trailer. In: youtube.com. Retrieved November 11, 2017 .
↑ The pheasant takes the snake to court. Entry in the catalog for the libraries of Heidelberg University . Retrieved November 11, 2017 (folk tale, Bhutan).
^ The Talisman of Good Fortune and Other Stories from Rural Bhutan. Entry in the catalog for the libraries of Heidelberg University . Retrieved November 11, 2017 (short story, anthology, Bhutan).

personal data
SURNAME	Rinzin, Rinzin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bhutanese author and former politician
DATE OF BIRTH	October 24, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kurtoe Goenpakap , Lhuntse , Bhutan

[1] Rinzin Rinzin. WRITE Foundation (Writers Readers Illustrators Translators and Educators Foundation) of the SAARC , accessed on 12 November 2017 (English).

[BT-Interview-2] Despite many challenges Bhutanese authors still writes books. Interview with Rinzin Rinzin in the Bhutan Times , August 30, 2015. In: www.pressreader.com. Retrieved November 11, 2017 .

[3] Golden Cup: The Legacy; Bhutanese film. In: Blog at WordPress.com. June 8, 2011, accessed November 11, 2017 . , Golden Cup - The Legacy. Movie trailer. In: youtube.com. Retrieved November 11, 2017 .

[PheasantSnake-4] The pheasant takes the snake to court. Entry in the catalog for the libraries of Heidelberg University . Retrieved November 11, 2017 (folk tale, Bhutan).

[Talisman-5] The Talisman of Good Fortune and Other Stories from Rural Bhutan. Entry in the catalog for the libraries of Heidelberg University . Retrieved November 11, 2017 (short story, anthology, Bhutan).