The nation of the tiny Himalayas of Bhutan crowned its new king yesterday in a ceremony which saw that thousands trek snow-covered villages with the capital, Thimphu, to be greeted by refined postings of the pageantry leading to the ritual Buddhists exasperate-filled.
The crowning of Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck as a fifth king of Bhutan comes after waiting two years the exact moment considered most favourable for a successful reign.
It is also part of a plan by his/her father venerated, who abdicated in 2006, to modernize his country of 635.000 people while finishing more than the 100 years of absolute royal rule. The first parliamentary elections were held in March.
The nomination started with the noise of the drums, the cymbals and the trumpets and saw the royal family, heads of government and the country the 'abbot as a Buddhist chief of S goes up in the gold room of throne in white-walled Tashichhodzong, which them average fortress of the glorious religion .
When the clocks struck the local time of the 8:31 AM, the former king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, 52, placed the crown of Raven on the head of his older son, making at 28 years the gyalpo of druk, or with king of dragon.
The new king then walked by a guard of honour, after three high banners on four levels depicting the lives of Buddha and of the gurus who brought the faith to Bhutan, to a temple on other side of Tashichhodzong.
Bhutan between now in three days and nights of the festivities, and even stopped its network of mobilophone for the occasion.
King Khesar is known because a player of sharp tennis shoe and his good glances gained hearts through India of the North-East and the Southeast Asia. Informed at the University of Oxford, it maintains strong bonds with Great Britain.
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