A traditional village bachelor’s dormitory where unmarried young men (above 15 years of age) used to sleep together. This is one of the important traditional institutions of the Hmars. “Buon means literally wrestling, and zâwl, an open space which was used for recreation such as wrestling matches and dances. There were raised platforms on all sides of the wall inside the dormitory. All the male youths of the village who had attained puberty were to sleep in the Buonzâwl at night and each tlanglak (a young teen age boy) in the village was under obligation to supply firewood for the Buonzâwl. The Valupas would narrate the heroic exploits of their forefathers and folk tales thereby teaching traditional value systems like tlâwmngaina, bravery and the likes. In times of emergency like tribal war or natural calamities, Buonzâwl served as a mobilizing centre for joint actions and in pre-colonial Hmar traditional society. It can also be considered as a defense wing of village administration. It was later developed into a kind of institution where youngsters were given rigorous training in the art of tribal war, wrestling and village administration. In other sense, Buonzâwl was an institution where disciplines and moral codes were imparted to the youths of the village” (Lal Dena).