This wholesome fruit of the joyful labour of love of an exceptional scholar and indefatigable researcher, who commands rare ease and facility with the richness and nuances of both the Dzongkha and English Languages as well as the profundity of Classical Choeke, The Boneless Tongue is a triumphant affirmation of the measureless poetic wealth hidden away in the fertile memories of our multi-generational communities which are the natural home of the spontaneous Muse. The variety, subtlety and potency of the unfettered linguistic devices inherent in the effortless expressions and exchanges of our pastoral folk are an envy of the so-called learned and advanced frontier-denizens. All languages, written or otherwise, aspire to achieve the elegance and economicity of poetry, dissolve into the timelessness of maxims and proverbs, and culminate as the repository of universal wisdom. The Boneless Tongue is proof of this, and more.