The Druk Desi (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་སྡེ་སྲིད་, Wylie: 'brug sde-srid; also called Deb Raja) was the title of the secular (administrative) rulers of Bhutan...
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List of rulers of Bhutan (redirect from Desi Druki)
secular leader, the Druk Desi (འབྲུག་སྡེ་སྲིད་, a.k.a. Deb Raja); and a religious leader, the Je Khenpo (རྗེ་མཁན་པོ་). Both the Druk Desi and Je Khenpo were...
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civil government headed by the Druk Desi (regent of Bhutan, also known as Deb Raja in Western sources). The Druk Desi was either a monk or a member of...
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1825–1881) is a forefather of the Wangchuck Dynasty. He served as 51st Druk Desi (Deb Raja, the secular executive) of Bhutan (1870–1873), and held the...
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Wangdicholing Palace, Jakar, Bumthang in 1862. His father, Jigme Namgyal, was the Druk Desi of Bhutan at the time and he was apprenticed at the court of his father...
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Lineage and the civil administrative branch headed by the Druk Desi. Both the Je Khenpo and Druk Desi were under the nominal authority of the Shabdrung, a...
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stepbrother (1680) of Ngawang Namgyal – were effectively controlled by the Druk Desi and Je Khenpo until power was further splintered through the innovation...
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Kuenga Gyatsho (2003). The Necklace of Pearls: Biography of the 13th Druk Desi Sherab Wangchuk (1697-1765). Thimphu: Centre for Bhutan Studies. Mehra...
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dzongpens were theoretically masters of their own realms but servants of the Druk Desi. In practice, however, they were under minimal central government control...
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time a Bhutanese dependency. The Druk Desi petitioned Lhasa unsuccessfully for assistance. On 25 April 1774, the Druk Desi signed a Treaty of Peace with...
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