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    Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་ འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་, Wylie: jigs med rdo rje dbang phyug; 2 May 1928 – 21 July 1972) was...
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  • marriage, he was also a member of the House of Wangchuck. The brother-in-law of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Dorji was close to his kinsman and accompanied...
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    hospital. The stupa, built in 1974 to honor the third Druk Gyalpo, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (1928–1972), is a prominent landmark in the city with its golden...
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    centre. It was built in 1953 by the third king of Bhutan Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. The palace lies at the northern end of the Thimphu Valley, on the...
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    repair and was restored by both the 1st king, Ugyen Wangchuck and the 2nd king, Jigme Wangchuck in 1927, who renovated the Chenrezig Lhakhang in particular...
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  • activist Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck (born 1955), one of the four wives and queens of Bhutanese king Jigme Singye Wangchuck House of Wangchuck, rulers of Bhutan...
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    Je Khenpo Sherab Gyaltshen. In 1971, Kesang Choden Wangchuck, the queen of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck built a Guru Temple next to the old Jowo Temple which...
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  • internationally Jigme Ugyen Wangchuck (born 2020), the second child of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck (born 1984),...
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    religion and to the central monastic body by the Bhutanese king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck in 2008. He belonged to the Drukpa Lineage of Tibetan and Bhutanese...
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    the modern era, support of the state religion during the reign of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck includes the manufacture of 10,000 gilded bronze images of the Buddha...
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