- 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...
- Drogön
Chogyal Phagpa (Tibetan: འགྲོ་མགོན་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཕགས་པ་, Wylie: ʼgro mgon chos
rgyal ʼphags pa; Chinese: 八思巴 Bāsībā; 1235 – 15
December 1280), was...
- 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...
- integrity" of Sikkim.
Sikkim had
autonomy in
internal affairs.
Support for the
Chogyal (the monarch) came from the
Bhutia community (Tibetan
settlers that came...
- Bhutan.
Because of this,
Namkhai Norbu also
bears the
honorary title '
Chögyal' (Tibetan: ཆོས་རྒྱལ་, Wylie: chos rgyal),
meaning 'Dharma King'. Such recognitions...
-
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...
-
includes Darjeeling. The
establishment of the
Buddhist kingdom under the
Chogyal in the 17th
century was
followed by
British rule in
Sikkim and thereafter...
- Bkra-shis Rnam-rgyal) (26
October 1893 – 2
December 1963) was the
ruling Chogyal (King) of
Sikkim from 1914 to 1963. He was the son of
Thutob Namgyal. He...
- 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...
-
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...
