Outside of Bhutan the concept of GNH has been receiving increasing attention and is being looked upon with considerable interest. However, the popular pieces that are being penned are fleeting and decidedly uncritical. Part of the reason for this is that the concept although having a great deal of intuitive and immediate appeal to a wide variety of people, has been little developed outside of t...

The study aims to clarify how transformative education teaching and learning ideas have been incorporated into sustainable development-focused in Bhutan. Sustainable development is included various ways the Educating for Gross National Happiness Training Manual (GNH TM) developed by Ministry of Education Bhutan 2013. GNH-focused at developing students’ respect critical thinking well-being human...

In this article we describe how well-being changed during 2020 in ten countries, namely Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain. Our measure of is the Gross National Happiness (GNH), a country-level index built applying sentiment analysis to data from Twitter. aim GNH pandemic within assess its validity as well-being, analyse c...

BACKGROUND Due to the decrease in informal care by family members and the demographic development, the importance of professional geriatric care will rise considerably. Aim of this study was to investigate the psychosocial workplace situation for employees in this profession. METHODS The German version of the COPSOQ (Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire) was used for the assessment of psycho...

The Kingdom of Bhutan is seeking to progressively realize the human right to health without addressing the cross-cutting human rights principles essential to a rights-based approach to health. Through a landscape analysis of the Bhutanese health system, documentary review of Bhutanese reporting to the United Nations human rights system, and semi-structured interviews with health policymakers in...

Abstract The article demonstrates an action research approach for constructing Transformative Sustainability Pedagogy (TSP) to empower teachers a sustainable future. starting point the TSP was Education Gross National Happiness (GNH) teacher project in Bhutan (2010–2013) – collaboration between author, co-researcher and Royal Council. Two Leadership Training Courses (LTC) were developed from se...

In their 30-year update to Limits to Growth, Meadows et al. call for a vision of sustainable development that includes systemic change brought on by new perspectives on the purpose of development, new ways of measuring progress, and changes in social norms. Here, I discuss Meadows et al.‘s work in the context of the literature on sustainable development and well-being as well as the development...

Several tissue specific non-viral carriers have been developed for gene delivery purposes. However, the inability to escape endosomes, undermines the efficacy of these carriers. Researchers inspired by HIV and influenza virus, have randomly used Gp41 and H5WYG fusogenic peptides in several gene delivery systems without any rational preference. Here for the first time, we have genetically engine...

This article provides an analytical report on the fourth International Vajrayāna Conference themed 'Buddhism and Modernity', which was organised by Centre for Bhutan GNH Studies in collaboration with Bhutan’s Central Monastic Body.