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Digor

Also known as དྲིག་གོར། · Bhutanese stone throw

Digor: photograph by Kencho Thinley
Photo: Kencho Thinley, Public domain, source on Wikimedia Commons

Two teams hurl flat round stones about 20 metres at a peg in the ground; the stone landing within a hand-span of the peg scores, and you may knock rivals away.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Bhutan.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Classical Worlds (about 1000 BCE to 500 CE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of South Asia.

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