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After the
death of 4th
Gyalwang Drukpa,
Kunkhyen Pema Karpo, in 1592,
there were two
rival candidates for his reincarnation.
Gyalwang Pagsam Wangpo, one of...
- The
Gyalwang Drukpa (Dzongkha: རྒྱལ་དབང་འབྲུག་པ་) is the
honorific title of the head of the
Drukpa Kagyu lineage, one of the
independent Sarma (new) schools...
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Thunberg and
leading scientists William Moomaw and
Susan Natali The 17th
Gyalwang Karmapa,
Ogyen Trinley Dorje is a p****ionate
environmentalist who often...
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Holiness the
Gyalwa Karmapa (རྒྱལ་བ་, 'Victorious One', and more
formally as
Gyalwang (རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་, 'King of
Victorious Ones') The
Karmapa is the head of...
- the
Gyalwang Drukpa.
Their name
comes from the order’s
proficiency in
Chinese martial arts,
which they
began learning in 2008
after the 12th
Gyalwang Drukpa...
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state of
Sikkim near the
capital Gangtok. It is the seat in
exile of the
Gyalwang Karmapa,
inaugurated in 1966 by the 16th Karmapa. It is also a
focal point...
- The name
Nalanda means "insatiable giving". In 1757, the 9th Je Khenpo,
Gyalwang Shakya Rinchen Rinpoche,
considered to be a
reincarnation of
Rechung Dorje...
- The 12th
Gyalwang Drukpa,
Jigmet Pema
Wangchen (Tibetan: འཇིགས་མེད་པདྨ་དབང་ཆེན་, Wylie: "jigs med pad+ma
dbang chen, born 1963), is the head of the Drukpa...
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Khenpo in Bhutan,
whereas the
other Drukpa monasteries in
Ladakh are of the
Gyalwang Drukpa's school,
based at Hemis. This
split in the
Drukpa Kagyu lineage...
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According to
traditional accounts, when the sect's founder,
Tsangpa Gyare, 1st
Gyalwang Drukpa,
began to
build Ralung Monastery,
there was a
violent storm. Thunder...
