TRONGSA TA-DZONG, THE UNCONQUERED WATCH TOWER

In the ballad of legendary Pemi Tshewang Tashi, he metaphorically describes majestic Ta-dzong as: 

དཔོན་ཆོས་རྗེ་གདུང་དཀར་རྒྱལ་མཚན་གྱིས། །ཕྱི་དཀར་པོའི་རྫོང་ཆེན་ཤོར་སོང་རུང་། །ནང་ནོར་བུའི་ལྟ་རྫོང་མ་ཤོར་བས། ། 

It loosely translates to—"even as the Trongsa Pönlop, Dungkar Gyeltshen, lost the mighty Trongsa Dzong to the aggressor Bjakar Dzongpoen, Pema Tenzin's forces; the gem-like Ta Dzong (watch tower) remained intact and unconquered. 

The Ta Dzong is glorified in his ballad as "norbui ta-dzong" or "a gem-like watch tower", indicating that the all necessary wartime armaments, rations and soldiers were safe within the fortified walls of the watch tower.

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