Kabney: tradition of wearing ceremonial scarves in Bhutan Introduction The origin of Kabney dates back to the time of Lord Buddha and also the 7 th Century saint Padma Sambhava was said to have given the white scarves to be worn by commoners during all the religious ceremonies. The distinction and creation of Kabneys for cabinet, nyikelm and Gups were made during the great rein of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel in the 16 th Century when he unified and founded the of Nation state in Bhutan. Further with an establishment of Monarchy in the 20 th Century, the various scarves for cabinet minister and their deputies ( བློན་པོ་ལྷན་རྒྱས་ གོང་འོག ), Nyikelms ( གཉིས་སྐལམ ) , Chip Zhem ( ཆིབས་བཞོནམ traditional title for the lowest ranked officer ) and Rabjams ( རབ་འབྱམས ) were introduced as post-based scarves. With an onset of 21 st century, the tradition of kabney evolved further in the phase of modernization and scarves for Dzongda ( རྫོང་བདག ), Drangpon ( དྲང་ད
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