Pundo

Pundo (Dzongkha: དཔུང་རྡོ་; Wylie: dpung-rdo; "strong-stone")[1] is a traditional Bhutanese sport. It is a game played by laymen and consists of throwing a stone weighing over a kilo as far as possible. The throwing movement is from the shoulder, with the stone held flat in the hand.[2]

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  1. "༈ རྫོང་ཁ་ཨིང་ལིཤ་ཤན་སྦྱར་ཚིག་མཛོད། ༼དཔ༽" [Dzongkha-English Dictionary: "KHU"]. Dzongkha-English Online Dictionary. Dzongkha Development Commission, Government of Bhutan. Archived from the original on 2011-08-25. Retrieved 2011-10-30.
  2. Pommaret, Francoise (2006). Bhutan: Himalayan Mountain Kingdom (5 ed.). Odyssey Books and Guides. p. 290. ISBN 962-217-810-3. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
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