dzong
Noun
Meaning
dzong (plural dzongs)
Alternative form of jong (“Tibetan building”)
Examples
A night view of Tashichho Dzong during snowfall.
Bhutan had no regular army, and what forces existed were composed of dzong guards armed with matchlocks, bows and arrows, swords, knives, and catapults.
Among these monks was the founder of the Lhapa subsect of the Kargyupa school, to whom is attributed the introduction of strategically built dzong.
Between the 12th century and the 17th century, the two Kargyupa subsects vied with one another from their respective dzong as the older form of Nyingmapa Buddhism was eclipsed.
It is a small dzong (only convert square with gate on the southern direction), located about convert to the south of Thimphu.
Some of these dzong guards, carrying shields and wearing chainmail armor, engaged the well-equipped British forces.