Zorig Chusum-13th Arts and Crafts
Zorig Chusum (བཟོ་རིག་བཅུ་གསུམ) or 13th Arts and Crafts School is a classification of arts, crafts, and technological skills into thirteen different domains, which is well known in Bhutan. The thirteen categories include (1) calligraphy or Rizzo, (2) painting or lhazo, (3) carving or parzo (སྤར་བཟོ་), (4) clay sculpture or jinzo (འཇིམ་བཟོ་), (5) metal casting or lugzo (བླུག་བཟོ་), (6) silver and gold smithery or troezo (སྤྲོས་བཟོ་), (7) needle work or tshemzo (ཚེམ་བཟོ་), (8) wood work/ carpentry or shingzo (ཤིང་བཟོ་), (9) textile production or thagzo (ཐགས་བཟོ་), (10) paper making or delzo (འདལ་བཟོ་), (11) bamboo craft or tsharzo (ཚར་བཟོ་), (12) black smithery or garzo (མགར་བཟོ་), and (13) masonry or dozo (རྡོ་བཟོ་). In this classification, carpentry and woodturning are put together under woodwork whereas, in another enumeration, black smithery and gold and silver smithery are treated as one art of smithery and woodturning (ཤག་བཟོ་) and carpentry enumerated as different arts or crafts.
Yigzo (ཡིག་བཟོ་) or calligraphy includes the art of writing in different scripts. It is carried out mostly by monastic scribes and priests who create books for regular use or make ornamental books with artistic calligraphy. Associated with calligraphy are also other crafts such as ink making and pen making.
Lhazo (ལྷ་བཟོ་) or fine art is practised as high culture by artists who are trained in the field. Buddhist figures and themes dominate the content of fine art, thus giving it the name lhazo or art of divine beings. The painters learn iconographic mensuration and line drawings and gradually go on to create very complex images of deities and Buddhas. They also learn how to prepare and use pigments, paint brushes, and canvas.
Places of Interest nearby
- Simply Bhutan Museam.
- Tashichhodzong
- Dochula Pass.
- Tango Monastery
- Simtokha Dzong
- Punakha Dzong
- Paro Rinpung Dzong
- Como Hotels in Bhutan
- Khaling Blind School
Tours you might be interested
- Black Necked Crane Festival
- Bhutan Thimphu Tourism
- Bhutan Trip In December
- Wangdi Festival
- Gangtey Trek
Tour Information
Visiting Hours
Morning from 9 AM to 6 PM.
Entrance Fees for the Museum
- Entrance fees for Indians are INR 300 and for Foreign nationals is $5 per person.
- The contact number is +975 02322302
