Ruepisa Gewog

Ruepisa Gewog
རུས་སྦིས་ས་
Gewog
Location of Ruepisa Gewog
Country Bhutan
DistrictWangdue Phodrang District
Time zoneUTC+6 (BTT)

Ruepisa Gewog (Dzongkha: རུས་སྦིས་ས་) is a gewog (village block) of (Dzongkha: དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་རྫོང་ཁ།) Wangdue Phodrang District, Bhutan.[1][2]

Phoetsi goenpa

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It was founded by(Dzongkha: ཨ་ནི་དཔལ་དཀར་ཆོས་འཛོམས།) Ani Pekar Chozom during the 15th century. On the ridge further ahead of the temple can be seen traces of her body cremation.[3]

References

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  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. ^ Kun-bzang-vphrin-las (2016). A comprehensive guide to the sacred places of Bhutan (Punakha, Wangdiphodrang, Chukha). Seeds of faith / ed. by Pema Wangdi and M. Ling. Thimphu: KMT Printers and Publishers. ISBN 978-99936-33-53-2.