National community

The term national community refers to a

group of people within a geographical
territory, sharing common socio-economic,
political, cultural and identities.
The keyword here community, which
means a group of people living in the same
place and sharing common characteristics
and values.
 The word national means country as opposed
to local, which denotes being restricted to a
particular area.
 Thus, a national community means a nation or
state like Bhutan, whereas a local community
means a group of people living in small area
such as villages or town near our school
community.
 Exercising rights and duties as a citizens is
critical to maintaining a peaceful, harmonious,
and just society.

 Rights help to preserve the security of life and

property and human dignity while duties help
instill a citizens a sense of care and
responsibility for the common good.
 Rights ensures that individuals citizen are protected from
unreasonable actions of the government and public
institutions. For example, several sections under Article 7
protect individuals from cruel treatment by public institutions
such as torture, arbitrary arrest, and capital punishment.
 On the other hand, duties ensure that individual citizens
are not reckless in exercising their rights. For example, Article
7 Section 2 of the Constitution grants a citizen the right to the
freedom of speech. However, Article 8 Section 3 requires him
or her to foster tolerance, mutual respect, and brotherhood
among all the people of Bhutan. This means that the right to
freedom of speech cannot be exercised at the cost of
tolerance, mutual respect, and brotherhood among the
people of Bhutan.
 The right to the freedom of expression and
the duty to foster tolerance and brotherhood
play out at the national level in the form of
media reports and parliamentary debates.
Debates and discussions are conducted with a
reasonable degree of self-censorship. This can
be practised in a local community such as your
school. You can start by agreeing to this simple
rule: everyone has the right to speak, but
everyone has the duty to listen.
 Driglam Choesum
 Driglam Choesum refers to the traditional
Bhutanese code of etiquette. It is the
customary practice of polite behaviour,
speech, and attitude.
OR
 It is a traditional practice of bhutanese
peoples which
 Driglam means the way of maintaining order.
  Namzha refers to a concept or system.
  Driglam literally means the way/method (ལམ་) of
maintaining order while namzha (རྣམ་བཞག་) refers to
a concept or system.
  Driglam namzha is thus a system of orderly and
cultured behavior or, the standards and rules that
constitute it. Good mannerisms in Bhutan is to a
great extent defined by the Buddhist ethics of
wholesome physical, verbal and mental conducts.
 Zacha Drosum (བཟའ་བཅའ་འགྲ ོ་
གསུམ།)
 The zacha drosum refers to physical
behaviours, including manners of eating,
chewing and walking.
OR
 The way the Bhutanese eat, behave and walk
is also part of this discipline, known as zhacha
dro sum. 
• The concept of driglam, like bézha (འབད་
བཞག་) or jaluchalu (བྱ་ལུགས་ཆ་ལུགས་), refers in a broad
sense to the good manners adopted by
individuals that are heavily influenced by the
concept of Buddhist good conduct.
THANK YOU
Group Members:
1.Kinley Tshering.
2.Jamyang Yoesel Tshering.
3.Lhundrup Wangmo.
4.TshokiDema.