Massage & Spa

1. ལུས་འཕྲུལ་བྱིན་།

   Lu-thrul jin

   Please give me a massage

   Usage

   Basic phrase used to request a massage

   Grammar Note

   Bhutan's traditional medicine (Sowa Rigpa) includes herbal massage treatments.

2. ཚ་ཆུའི་སྡོང་གྲུམ་ཡོད་པས།

   Tshachu-i dong-drum yoe-pa?

   Is there a hot spring?

   Usage

   Used to inquire about Bhutan's natural hot springs (tshachu)

   Grammar Note

   Bhutan has natural sulfur hot springs throughout the country. Gasa Hot Spring is the most famous.

3. དར་ཟིལ་གྱིས་བཀང་ས་ཆུ་གྲུམ་ཡོད་པས།

   Dar-zil-gyi kang-sa chu-drum yoe-pa?

   Is there a herbal bath?

   Usage

   Used to ask about the traditional Bhutanese herbal bath

   Grammar Note

   Bhutan's "menchu" (herbal bath) uses medicinal plants. It's believed to relieve joint pain and improve circulation.

4. རྡོ་ཚོད་ཅིག་གནང་།

   Do-tshoe chig nang

   Please do a hot stone massage

   Usage

   Used to request Bhutan's traditional hot stone therapy

   Grammar Note

   "Dotsho" is a traditional Bhutanese hot stone bath where river stones heated in fire are used for therapeutic soaking.

5. ལུས་ཀྱི་ག་ཏེ་ལུ་ན་ཟུག་ཡོད།

   Lu-kyi ga-te-lu na-zug yoe

   Please tell me where on the body it hurts

   Usage

   Used by a therapist to identify areas of pain

   Grammar Note

   In Dzongkha, body parts are often preceded by "ལུས་ཀྱི" (lu-kyi) meaning "of the body."

6. ཤིང་སྨན་མར་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་གནང་།

   Shing-men-mar lag-len tab nang

   Please use herbal medicine cream

   Usage

   Used to request treatment using herbal preparations

   Grammar Note

   Bhutan's traditional medicine is based on Tibetan medicine (Amchi) with extensive knowledge of medicinal plants.

7. ཧ་ཅང་ན་ཟུག་འདུག།

   Ha-chang na-zug dug

   It's too painful (please be gentler)

   Usage

   Used when the massage is too intense

   Grammar Note

   "Ha-chang" is an intensifying adverb. "Na-zug" means "pain".

8. ཆུ་ཚིགས་ག་དེམ་ཅིག་འགྲུབ་ཨིན་ན།

   Chu-tsig ga-dem-chig drub in-na?

   How many hours does it take?

   Usage

   Used to ask how long the treatment will take

   Grammar Note

   Bhutanese herbal baths typically last 45–60 minutes. Hot stone baths usually take 1–2 hours.

9. སྙིང་གི་ལུས་འཕྲུལ་ཡག་སུམ།

   Nying-gi lu-thrul yag-sum

   That was a very wonderful massage

   Usage

   Used to express appreciation after a massage

   Grammar Note

   A simple compliment to the therapist. Tipping is not standard in Bhutan, but verbal appreciation is welcomed.

10. སྨན་མར་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་གནང་།

    Men-mar lag-len tab nang

    Please use medicinal oil

    Usage

    Used to request a massage with medicinal oil

    Grammar Note

    Traditional Bhutanese medicine uses various herbal oils. "སྨན་མར" (men-mar) literally means medicinal oil.

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