Media Coverage

The following includes only interviews and reports of Lopen Karma Phuntsho’s scholarly work, but does not include media coverage of the activities of the Loden Foundation.

  1. The Science of the Mind: Why Buddhism Matters in 2026, NBTV, Kathmandu, Nepal.
  2. Life as Art: Conversation with Chimi Zangmo, VAST Bhutan 2025, Thimphu.
  3. Response to Ramon Magsaysay Award, November 2024, Manila.
  4. Pema Karpo’s History of Buddhism, a translation published weekly on Kuensel.
  5. Interview with Karma Phuntsho, Journal of Tibetan Literature, 2023.2
  6. Buddhist Wisdom on Conservation with Lopen Karma Phuntsho, Kuensel, 9 June, 2022
  7. The Life and Deeds of Padmasambhava: A Bhutanese Chronicle, at Bhutan Echoes, Thimphu. Bhutan Echoes, 22 July, 2022
  8. What Leaders Can Learn From Mindfulness And Entrepreneurship In Bhutan, Forbes, 23 July, 2021
  9. Dr. Karma Phuntsho speaking during the ‘Harnessing Civil Society Potentials’ roundtable, Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy, 2022.
  10. How Myth and Superstition are Encouraging Wildlife Trade and Poaching | Dr. Karma Phuntsho, Bhutan Ecological Society, 2022
  11. On early history of Bhutan, BBS, 16 December 2020
  12. The Sublime Ura Valley & Vibrant Ura Yakchoe Festival, Visit Bhutan, 2021
  13. Dzongkha Standard Testing System, Dzongjug, being developed to promote the national language Bhutan Broadcasting Service, 14 July 2020
  14. Dzongkha Standard Testing System, Dzongjug, being developed to promote the national language, Bhutan Broadcasting Service, 14 July 2020  in English
  15. Celebrating Pema Lingpa, Bhutan Broadcasting Service in English, 2020
  16. The 21st Century Economic Roadmap, Bhutan Broadcasting Service,  (one hour each in Dzongkha and English), 2020
  17. The Life and Legacies of Pema Lingpa (one hour), Bhutan Broadcasting Service, 2019
  18. Bhutan Dialogues, a monthly forum organized by the UN Bhutan and Loden Foundation
  19. My Mixtape – Dr. Karma Phuntsho – 26th April 2019, Radio Valley, Thimphu  
  20. The Significance of National Day, Bhutan Broadcasting Service, 16 December 2019
  21. The Life and Legacy of Ugyen Wangchuk (one hour), Bhutan Broadcasting Service, 14 December 2019
  22. Dzongkha Standard Testing System, Bhutan Broadcasting Service, 10 December 2019
  23. Gender and Culture, Bhutan Broadcasting Service
  24. Trhuebab: Blessed Water Day, Bhutan Broadcasting Service Radio
  25. Bhutan on the Brink, Tricycle, 2017 
  26. Radio Free Asia interview on Bhutan’s holy sites
  27. Radio Free Asia interview on Bhutan’s cultural landscape
  28. Radio Free Asia interview on Bhutan’s languages
  29. Radio Free Asia interview on Bhutan’s ecology
  30. Times of India on border conflict and change
  31. India Today on geopolitical situation
  32. Global Entrepreneurship Week, Loden, 2013
  33. Tiny Himalayan country may not be as immune to earthquakes as thought, Science, 4 Nov 2016
  34.  On Cultural Documentation, BBC World Service, 24th Dec, 2013
  35. Strengths and Weaknesses of Himalayan Buddhist Traditions, Vajrayana Conference, rebroadcasted on BBS.
  36. Bhutanese Architecture, Bhutan Broadcasting Service Radio
  37. Culture and Youth, interview, Bhutan Broadcasting Service Radio
  38. Oxford Today on the History of Bhutan
  39. Cultural Documentation, Bhutan Broadcasting Service
  40. Gross National Happiness, Bhutan Broadcasting Service
  41. Imagining Change: Globalisation and Bhutan, Aug 28, 2014, SNDP
  42. Report on the History of Bhutan by Asia House, London
  43. Coverage of The History of Bhutan on Channel News Asia
  44. Reviews and reports about The History of Bhutan
  45. Individual Responsibility (Talk at Royal Institute of Management)
  46. Tete a Tete: Interview with Raven magazine
  47. BBS Anchor Dawa sits face-to-face with news-makers, movers and the shakers. 
  48.  A wealth of tongues
  49. Digital archive donated to National Library
  50. Buddhist texts digitalized, BBS, Thimphu, 2012
  51. Scholar engages students at ILCS
  52. Bhutan, happiness and development index
  53. Threatened by lack of interest in reading, writing
  54. Buddhist texts digitalized, Kuensel, Dzongkha
  55. Face to face with Dr. Karma Phuntsho, Business Bhutan, Thimphu
  56. Zhemgang in Bhutan’s Cultural Atlas, Business Bhutan, Thimphu
  57. Zhemgang in Bhutan’s Cultural Atlas, Bhutan Times, Thimphu