The Chogyal ("Dharma Kings", Tibetan: ཆོས་རྒྱལ, Wylie: chos rgyal) were the monarchs of the former Kingdom of Sikkim, which belonged to the Namgyal dynasty...
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Palden Thondup Namgyal (redirect from Muwong Chogyal Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Chempo Palden Tondup Namgyal (dPal-ldan Don-grub rNamgyal))
don-grub rnam-rgyal; 23 May 1923 – 29 January 1982) was the 12th and last Chogyal (king) of the Kingdom of Sikkim. Palden thondup Namgyal was born on 23...
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integrity" of Sikkim. Sikkim had autonomy in internal affairs. Support for the Chogyal (the monarch) came from the Bhutia community (Tibetan settlers that came...
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Drogön Chogyal Phagpa (Tibetan: འགྲོ་མགོན་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཕགས་པ་, Wylie: ʼgro mgon chos rgyal ʼphags pa; Chinese: 八思巴 ʼphags pa; 1235 – 15 December 1280), was...
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Chogyal Dago Rigdzin has been serving as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bhutan since 2020. From 2023 to 2024, Rigdzin served as the interim...
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includes Darjeeling. The establishment of the Buddhist kingdom under the Chogyal in the 17th century was followed by British rule in Sikkim and thereafter...
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Chogyal Wangchuk Tenzing Namgyal (Sikkimese: སྟོབས་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་; Wylie: stobs-rgyal dbang-phyug bstan-'dzin rnam-rgyal; born 1 April...
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Namkhai Norbu (redirect from Chögyal Namkhai Norbu)
Bhutan. Because of this, Namkhai Norbu also bears the honorary title 'Chögyal' (Tibetan: ཆོས་རྒྱལ་, Wylie: chos rgyal), meaning 'Dharma King'. Such recognitions...
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from 1642 to 16 May 1975, when it was annexed by India. It was ruled by Chogyals of the Namgyal dynasty. According to legend, Khye Bumsa, a 14th-century...
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The Third Desi Chogyal Minjur Tempa (Dzongkha:༼སྡེ་སྲིད་ཁྲི་རབས་གསུམ་པ་ཆོས་རྒྱ་མི་འགྱུར་བསྟན་པ༽ born Damchho Lhendrub in 1613) was the third Druk Desi...
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