How to separate politics and religion in the Buddhist nation of Bhutan

The Himalayan country of Bhutan is officially a Buddhist kingdom. It’s also a fledgling democracy and trying to establish a balance between honoring its Buddhist identity and maintaining a separation between religion and government. The compromise the country has settled on for now excludes clergy from political life. Sushmita Pathak reports from Bhutan on the country’s unconventional approach to “secularism.”

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