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'''Trongsa''', previously '''Tongsa''' ({{Langx|dz|ཀྲོང་གསར་}}, {{bo|w=krong gsar}}), is a [[Thromde]] or town, and the capital of [[Trongsa District]] in central [[Bhutan]]. The name means "new village" in [[Dzongkha]].{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} The first temple was built in 1543 by the [[Drukpa Lineage|Drukpa lama]] Ngagi Wangchuck, who was the great-grandfather of [[Ngawang Namgyal]], [[Zhabdrung Rinpoche]], the unifier of Bhutan.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}
==Trongsa Dzong==
{{Main|Trongsa Dzong}}
'''Chökhor Raptentse Dzong''' at Trongsa which was built in 1644, used to be the seat of power of the [[House of Wangchuck|Wangchuck dynasty]] before it became rulers of Bhutan in 1907.  Traditionally the [[List of rulers of Bhutan|King of Bhutan]] first becomes the [[Penlop of Trongsa|Trongsa Penlop]] ([[penlop|governor]]) before being named Crown Prince and eventually King. Built on a mountain spur high above the gorges of the [[Mangde Chhu]], the [[dzong]] controlled east-west trade for centuries. The only road connecting eastern and western Bhutan (the precursor to the modern [[Lateral Road]]), passed through the courtyard of the dzong. At the command of the ''penlop'' the massive doors could be shut, dividing the country in two.
Higher yet on the mountainside is a watchtower, called "Ta Dzong"(watch tower), built to guard the dzong from enemies but now housing a museum and a chapel dedicated to Jigme Namgyal who was Trongsa Penlop from 1853 to 1870.
<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Atlas of Bhutan:Land Cover and Institutional Facilities |location=Thimphu |publisher=National Land Commission  |page=32 |date=2016 |isbn=978-9993692614}}</ref>
Early establishment of Trongsa Dzong.
As per the prophecy ལུང་བསྟན། of lha dang lama, In 1543 the tutor [yong-zinཡོངས་འཛིན] of kuenkhen Pema karpo ཀུན་མཁྱེན་པདྨ་དཀར་པོ། visited yoelingའོད་གླིང་། village to the north བྱང་ཕྱོགས། of current day Trongsa dzong, where yoeling temple ལྷ་ཁང་།ོ is located. In his clear spiritual vision, he saw a sparkling light emerging at night from a cliff in the middle of a forest. Later that day, when he went to the site, he saw the bagha བྷ་ག of dorji phamo and the soul lake བླ་མཚོ། of pelden Lhamo དཔལ་ལྡན་ལྷ་མོ།[Mahakali] as well as the footprints of her riding horse འཆིབ་རྟ along the waist of the cliff. Yongzin Rinpoche then built a hermitage at the particular site and meditated in the area, where he saw Pelden Lhamo in person. In that event, he realized it to be a prophecy for the place to have a Majestic Dzong, from which the reign of the Pelden Drukpa would flourish as the rays of the Sun.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wangchuk |first=Dorji |title=Moenlam Cjem,p Trongsa Dzongkhag |date=January 9, 2021 |publisher=Research and translation office of His Holiness the Jekhenpo |pages=17 |language=en, dz}}</ref>
The valley of Trongsa also known as Mang-Dey.
Trongsa is also known as Mang-deg which later became Mang-dey, with a change in the spelling and pronunciation of the second word. The history behind who, why and when the name was given runs back to the time when Buddhist scholar Kuenkhen Longchen Rabjam visited Trongsa around 1357 and conferred kachoe བཀའ་ཆོས། spiritual teaching at the place called Sherabling. During that time the people of Trongsa [devotees] offered plenty of druna འབྲུ་སྣ། [grain] as offering. In an enchanting way, Kuenkhen Rinpoche said, "since you all offered me plenty of grain, the place will be called 'Mang-Deg'" མང་སྡེག- mang meaning plenty and deg meaning offered. Thus the name of the place was derived from Kuenkhen Rinpoche's statement, and was known as Mang-deg, which later changed to mag-dey as mentioned before, with the change of time.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wangchuk |first=Dorji |title=Moenlam Chenmo Trongsa Dzong |date=January 9, 2021 |publisher=Research and translation office of His Holiness the Je Khenpo |pages=1}}</ref>
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File:Trongsa1.jpg|Highway to [[Sarpang]] just east of the town
File:Trongsa Town.jpg|Trongsa town medical centre
File:TrongsaDzong.jpg|Trongsa Dzong from above to the west of the town
File:Holy water spring -Trongsa- Bhutan.jpg|Holy water spring -Trongsa- Bhutan
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==See also==
*[[Trongsa Dzong]]
*[[Penlop of Trongsa]]
*[[Trongsa Province]]
*[[Bhutan Cultural Atlas]]
*[[Tshangkha Shaydra]].
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