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Stone Game

The Bhutanese young men engage in a shotput contest of throwing the stone backward. The players would find a stone of appropriate size, draw a line and the hurl the stone. The stone is held by two hands and swung between the two legs to gain momentum until the player decides to throw it backward over one's head. The game does not have modes of scoring points or being played in teams and normally does not involve betting. The person who can throw the furthest wins.

  • རྒྱབ་རྡོ། (Dzongkha, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > Stone Game (English, Latin script, Translation)
    • > rgyab rdo (Dzongkha, Latin script, THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > gyap do (Dzongkha, Latin script, THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
Subject ID: S7754