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Boedra

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Boedra (Dzongkha: བོད་སྒྲ་; Wylie: bod-sgra;[1] "Tibetan music"; also spelled bödra) is a traditional genre of Bhutanese music. Boedra, which is influenced by Tibetan folk music, is one of the two main folk singing styles in Bhutan, the other being zhungdra, which was developed in the 17th century.[2]

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  1. ^ "༈ རྫོང་ཁ་ཨིང་ལིཤ་ཤན་སྦྱར་ཚིག་མཛོད། ༼བོ༽" [Dzongkha-English Dictionary: "BO"]. Dzongkha-English Online Dictionary. Dzongkha Development Commission, Government of Bhutan. Archived from the original on 2011-08-26. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
  2. ^ Brown, Lindsay; Mayhew, Bradley; Armington, Stan; Richard W Whitecross (2007). Bhutan. Lonely Planet. pp. 59 et seq. ISBN 978-1-74059-529-2. Retrieved 28 May 2011.