- 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...
- 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...
- 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 is a
Bhutanese jurist who has been
serving as the
Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of
Bhutan since 2020. From 2023 to 2024, Rigdzin...
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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...
- 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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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...
- 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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Chogyal Minjur Tempa (Dzongkha: ༼ཆོས་རྒྱལ་སྨིན་འགྱུར།༽་; born
Damchho Lhendrub in 1613) was the
third Druk Desi, the
secular head of Bhutan, and previously...
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constitution that
provided for the
country becoming a
state of India,
which the
Chogyal signed under pressure from India. On 4
September 1974 the
Indian Lok Sabha...
