【海外の反応】最高指導者が54年間「沈黙の瞑想中」…ブータン建国ミステリーが闇深すぎる件

don't worry honey, the supreme lama leader went to live in a monastery farm upstate

This is back when actual conspiracies were easier to cover up

54 years at Bernie's

Bhutanese here. It was the right course of action as Bhutan was a nascent state at the time of his death and those closest to him feared the country would fragment under the pressure of civil war and invasion from the north.

This is nothing compared to the twelver Shia's, the main branch of shia islam: the 11th and final actual Imam died some time in the 9th century AD, and after that one of his advisors came out and claimed that the Imam had an infant son who remains hidden out of fear of prosecution, but no worries, because the advisor and his own entourage were representing that hidden baby imam and all of the decisions were making were on his behalf.

flashforward to 2026, the twelvers are still waiting for the hidden imam to emerge from hiding and lead them

>**Hasan al-Askari, the eleventh Imam, died in AH 260 (873–874), possibly poisoned by the Abbasids. Immediately after his death, his main representative, Uthman ibn Sa'id al-Asadi, claimed that the eleventh Imam had an infant son named Muhammad, who was kept hidden from the public out of fear of Abbasid persecution. Uthman also claimed to represent Muhammad, who had entered a state of occultation. Other local representatives of al-Askari largely supported these assertions, while the Shia community fragmented into several sects over al-Askari's succession. All these sects, however, are said to have disappeared after a few decades except for the Twelvers, who accept the son of al-Askari as the twelfth and final Imam in Shia Islam, remaining in a state of occultation.**

>**Uthman was followed by three more agents, collectively known as the Four Deputies, who were regarded by the Twelver community as representatives of Muhammad al-Mahdi. This period, later termed the Minor Occultation, ended after about seventy years with the death of the fourth agent, Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad al-Samarri (d. 940–941). He is said to have received the final letter of Muhammad al-Mahdi shortly before his death. The letter predicted the death of Abu al-Hasan in six days and announced the beginning of the complete occultation, later called the Major Occultation, which continues to this day. The letter, ascribed to Muhammad al-Mahdi, added that the complete occultation would continue until God granted him permission to manifest himself again in a time when Earth would be filled with tyranny.**
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_al-Mahdi

Bhutanese here. It was the right course of action as Bhutan was a nascent state at the time of his death and those closest to him feared the country would fragment under the pressure of civil war and invasion from the north.

How long until Trump silent retreats under his ballroom, giving orders via Trump AI, is everyone guessing?

Seems like a really good plan that worked.