The State Department's 2023 report on Bhutan describes the constitution directing the state to provide funds and facilities to the Central Monastic Body, the government administered institution overseeing the country's roughly 3,500 monks, and records that no comparable state funding reaches non-Buddhist religious institutions, consistent with the constitution's naming of Buddhism as the spiritual heritage the state is charged with preserving.
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Citation
AuthorUnited States Department of State, Office of International Religious Freedom
PublisherUS Department of State
URLhttps://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/bhutan/
Source TypeGovernment report
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
The United States' own State Department annual country report on religious freedom, the strongest available form for a fact about a country's state funding of religious institutions, hence the top tier. Connections
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This source names Bhutan directly: "The State Department's 2023 report on Bhutan describes the constitution directing the state to provide funds and facilities to the Central Monastic Body, the government administered institution..."
Source US Department of State, 2023 Report on International Religious Freedom: BhutanUnited States Department of State, Office of International Religious Freedom
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)
This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Countries, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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