The findings of GNH Survey 2015 can be accessed by clicking the link grossnationalhappiness.com

Centre for Bhutan & GNH Studies is the third largest publisher (after Ministry of Education and KMT, a private firm) in the country, and all available for free download at bhutanstudies.org.bt/books-2/

GNH is measured based on what is called nine domains.

GNH INDEX is constructed using 33 indicators. Bhutan’s GNH Index in 2015 was 0.756, up from 0.743 in 2010.

Victor Hugo wrote “No army can stop an idea whose time has come”. GNH has reached Americas.

In “The Legal Code of Bhutan 1729” Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal who founded Bhutan as a state said: “If the government cannot create happiness to the people there is no purpose for the government to exist”.

This was the first book published by the Centre for Bhutan & GNH Studies after it was established on 11 November 1998. By 2018 we published 140 books which are available for free download at bhutanstudies.org.bt

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8th Int’l #GNH conference in Malaysia created a network of young happiness ambassadors to mobilise a youth movement that will promote GNH in schools, universities, colleges and youth organisations. kuenselonline.com/make-way-for-t…

8th International conference on GNH in Malaysia created a network of young happiness ambassadors to mobilise a youth movement that will promote GNH in schools, universities, colleges and youth organisations. kuenselonline.com/make-way-for-t…

8th International Conference on GNH dwelt on “community vitality”, one of the nine dimensions of GNH, whose resilience and vitality was severely tested by party politics. kuenselonline.com/community-vita…

Journal of Bhutan Studies, Volume 37 & 38 is now available online. Please visit our website bhutanstudies.org.bt to download latest ebook. bhutanstudies.org.bt

Two Distinguished Lectures on Bhutan: The Land of the Thunder Dragon and Gross National Happiness eventbrite.co.uk/e/two-distingu…

Livestream of theDistinguished Public Lectures on Bhutan next Wednesday will be our YouTube Channel:youtube.com/user/OPHIOxford youtube.com/user/OPHIOxford

Dasho Karma Ura delivers a lecture on Development with Integrity: Bhutan’s development and its Gross National Happiness Index, chaired by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Professor Louise Richardson. Discussants include Martine Durand... youtube.com/attribution_li…

His Excellency Dasho Tshering Tobgay speaks on The First Ten Years of Democracy: Reflections from Bhutan. youtube.com/attribution_li…

Dasho Karma Ura, Keynote Address: The Timeless Guru Rinpoche | Conference on Life and Legacy of Guru Padmasambhava, India International Centre, Delhi, 29-30 January 2019. youtube.com/attribution_li…