Lhuntsi

Lhuntsi is identified with Lhuentse in eastern Bhutan, overlooking the Kuri Chhu valley. Local tradition traces the site's smaller religious establishment to Ngagi Wangchuk in 1552 and attributes the later, larger dzong to Minjur Tempa, the governor of Trongsa.

The larger setting was Bhutan's seventeenth-century consolidation. The Royal Heritage Museum records Minjur Tempa's appointment at Trongsa in 1643 and his extension of control across central and eastern Bhutan by 1655. Sacred objects in the dzong are also associated with Desi Tenzin Rabgye. The site thus brought fortified authority and Buddhist institutions together.