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Rinchen Sazhi

“ Rinchen Sazhi ” ༼ རིན་ཆེན་ས་གཞི ༽ ( Precious Land ) is a  feature film and an advocacy documentary, which  portrays the value of our precious  land. It impart essential messages to the unemployed youths, school drop outs  and rural populace, especially about the URS/ LUC. Plot Leaning on the wall, Namgay day-dreams as a bureaucrat ( Dasho ) in an office , when his mother interrupts suddenly.  Having degree qualification, he always wishes to have a white-collar job and well settled life. He hope to support his mother and repay the loans after getting into a government job. He even refused to marry a woman despite her marriage proposal . Choden , a daughter of a wealthy man wanted to marry Namgay . She wanted him to invest his knowledge and skills by farming on her father’s land which was against Namgay’s will. Choden's father, Ap Penjor besides his huge land holding, still feels unsatisfied and plan to take over Aum Pemo's ( Namgay's mother) land

Rada Nyekhang

I was born in the spring of the wood  Dog year 1994 in a ramshackle nearby Rada Lhakhang.  The Lhakhang, also known as the Rada Nyekhang, is located in Gangthangkha, at the heart of  erstwhile  Wangdue town. Just beneath the Lhakhang is the district court. Whenever I visit my home, my mother prepares a bottle of locally brewed wine(ara) to be offered as serkyem ( Ser means  gold and Kyem refers to beverage)to appease our deity Ap Radap . She insists me to visit the Rada Nyekhang to seek guidance and blessings of Ap Radap , as I was born a\nd brought up at Wangdue. My childhood was mostly in the woods of Cypress near the Lhakhang, playing in the dust, says my mother. Renovated Lhakhang  Ap Radap was revered as a deity by the reincarnation of Chana Dorji, Mondey Phurpa.   Mondey Phurpa accompanied  Ap Radap to  Radagang ( Rada Nye ), located at Sha Khotokha .  Early stories of Ap Radap dates back to the times when he was born as the king of the Nagas in an ocean. He was said t