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Sepia-toned parchment illustration of Guru Rinpoche seated in meditation atop the sprawling form of Sinmo, the demoness whose body shapes Bhutan’s mountainous landscape.

Sinmo the Demoness: An Ancient Asian Legend of Taming the Land

Long before Bhutan became known as the Land of the Thunder Dragon, before prayer flags fluttered from mountain passes and monasteries clung to cliffsides, the kingdom was something else entirely. The land itself was alive, not with the gentle spirit of nature, but with the wild, untamed essence of a colossal demoness named Sinmo. Sinmo was no ordinary demon. Her
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