Media Coverage

The following includes only interviews and reports of Lopen Karma Phuntsho’s scholarly work, but does not include media coverage of the activities of the Loden Foundation.

  1. Response to Ramon Magsaysay Award, November 2024, Manila.
  2. Pema Karpo’s History of Buddhism, a translation published weekly on Kuensel.
  3. Interview with Karma Phuntsho, Journal of Tibetan Literature, 2023.2
  4. Buddhist Wisdom on Conservation with Lopen Karma Phuntsho, Kuensel, 9 June, 2022
  5. The Life and Deeds of Padmasambhava: A Bhutanese Chronicle, at Bhutan Echoes, Thimphu. Bhutan Echoes, 22 July, 2022
  6. What Leaders Can Learn From Mindfulness And Entrepreneurship In Bhutan, Forbes, 23 July, 2021
  7. Dr. Karma Phuntsho speaking during the ‘Harnessing Civil Society Potentials’ roundtable, Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy, 2022.
  8. How Myth and Superstition are Encouraging Wildlife Trade and Poaching | Dr. Karma Phuntsho, Bhutan Ecological Society, 2022
  9. On early history of Bhutan, BBS, 16 December 2020
  10. The Sublime Ura Valley & Vibrant Ura Yakchoe Festival, Visit Bhutan, 2021
  11. Dzongkha Standard Testing System, Dzongjug, being developed to promote the national language Bhutan Broadcasting Service, 14 July 2020
  12. Dzongkha Standard Testing System, Dzongjug, being developed to promote the national language, Bhutan Broadcasting Service, 14 July 2020  in English
  13. Celebrating Pema Lingpa, Bhutan Broadcasting Service in English, 2020
  14. The 21st Century Economic Roadmap, Bhutan Broadcasting Service,  (one hour each in Dzongkha and English), 2020
  15. The Life and Legacies of Pema Lingpa (one hour), Bhutan Broadcasting Service, 2019
  16. Bhutan Dialogues, a monthly forum organized by the UN Bhutan and Loden Foundation
  17. My Mixtape – Dr. Karma Phuntsho – 26th April 2019, Radio Valley, Thimphu  
  18. The Significance of National Day, Bhutan Broadcasting Service, 16 December 2019
  19. The Life and Legacy of Ugyen Wangchuk (one hour), Bhutan Broadcasting Service, 14 December 2019
  20. Dzongkha Standard Testing System, Bhutan Broadcasting Service, 10 December 2019
  21. Gender and Culture, Bhutan Broadcasting Service
  22. Trhuebab: Blessed Water Day, Bhutan Broadcasting Service Radio
  23. Bhutan on the Brink, Tricycle, 2017 
  24. Radio Free Asia interview on Bhutan’s holy sites
  25. Radio Free Asia interview on Bhutan’s cultural landscape
  26. Radio Free Asia interview on Bhutan’s languages
  27. Radio Free Asia interview on Bhutan’s ecology
  28. Times of India on border conflict and change
  29. India Today on geopolitical situation
  30. Global Entrepreneurship Week, Loden, 2013
  31. Tiny Himalayan country may not be as immune to earthquakes as thought, Science, 4 Nov 2016
  32.  On Cultural Documentation, BBC World Service, 24th Dec, 2013
  33. Strengths and Weaknesses of Himalayan Buddhist Traditions, Vajrayana Conference, rebroadcasted on BBS.
  34. Bhutanese Architecture, Bhutan Broadcasting Service Radio
  35. Culture and Youth, interview, Bhutan Broadcasting Service Radio
  36. Oxford Today on the History of Bhutan
  37. Cultural Documentation, Bhutan Broadcasting Service
  38. Gross National Happiness, Bhutan Broadcasting Service
  39. Imagining Change: Globalisation and Bhutan, Aug 28, 2014, SNDP
  40. Report on the History of Bhutan by Asia House, London
  41. Coverage of The History of Bhutan on Channel News Asia
  42. Reviews and reports about The History of Bhutan
  43. Individual Responsibility (Talk at Royal Institute of Management)
  44. Tete a Tete: Interview with Raven magazine
  45. BBS Anchor Dawa sits face-to-face with news-makers, movers and the shakers. 
  46.  A wealth of tongues
  47. Digital archive donated to National Library
  48. Buddhist texts digitalized, BBS, Thimphu, 2012
  49. Scholar engages students at ILCS
  50. Bhutan, happiness and development index
  51. Threatened by lack of interest in reading, writing
  52. Buddhist texts digitalized, Kuensel, Dzongkha
  53. Face to face with Dr. Karma Phuntsho, Business Bhutan, Thimphu
  54. Zhemgang in Bhutan’s Cultural Atlas, Business Bhutan, Thimphu
  55. Zhemgang in Bhutan’s Cultural Atlas, Bhutan Times, Thimphu