Bjendag Gewog

Bjena Gewog སྦྱེད་ནག་
Gewog
Country	Bhutan
District	Wangdue Phodrang District
Time zone	UTC+6 (BTT)

Balakha. Bjena

Bjendag Gewog (Dzongkha: སྦྱེད་ནག་) (or Bjena) is a gewog (village block) of Wangdue Phodrang District, དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་། Bhutan.[1][2] The Bjendag Gewog is located 1350-3400m above sea level, 15km away from the Dzongkhag Centre. It has a population of 2470, consisting of 1220 males and 1250 females. Bjendag is considered a 'sloppy' area, as the soil is predominantly sandy loam and land use is generally dry and wet land farming.[3] There are 5 Chiwogs in Bjendag:[4]

1) Phuentsho Gang (ཕུན་ཚོགས་སྒང)

2) Tashitokha (བཀྲིས་ཏོ་ཁ)

3) Wache (ཝ་ཅད)

4) Themakha

5) Khatokha

Houses are of mainly traditional type made up stone and wood. Their primary source of income are from cash crops such as potato and vegetables.[3]

During the bala bong ko at bjena

Wache Dzong is located here.[5] The Gewog also have one of the four sacred cliffs of Phajo Drugom Zhigpo known as Dechen Draphu here.[6]

References

1. "Chiwogs in Wangdue Phodrang" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
2. "-". Royal Government of Bhutan. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
3. "Bjena". www.wangduephodrang.gov.bt. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
4. "Bjena". www.wangduephodrang.gov.bt. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
5. "His Holiness consecrates Wache Dzong". Bhutan Broadcasting Service. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
6. "Dechen Draphu, where Phajo saw the Vision of the Eight Precepts Mandala". bhutanpilgrimage.com. Retrieved 2025-01-25.