- 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...
- Bhutan.
Because of this,
Namkhai Norbu also
bears the
honorary title '
Chögyal' (Tibetan: ཆོས་རྒྱལ་, Wylie: chos rgyal),
meaning 'Dharma King'. Such recognitions...
- integrity" of Sikkim.
Sikkim had
autonomy in
internal affairs.
Support for the
Chogyal (the monarch) came from the
Bhutia community (Tibetan
settlers that came...
- 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...
- Drogön
Chogyal Phagpa (Tibetan: འགྲོ་མགོན་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཕགས་པ།, Wylie: ʼgro mgon chos
rgyal ʼphags pa; Chinese: 八思巴 Bāsībā; 26
March 1235 – 15
December 1280)...
- [failed verification] The
former Chogyal was
forced to
abdicate in
favour of his son,
Sidkeong Namgyal in 1863. The
Chogyals endeavoured to
modernize Sikkim...
- 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...
-
palatial monastery in Gangtok, Sikkim, India. The
Royal Chapel of the
Chogyals is the main
centre for
prayers with an ****embly hall in the
centre and...
-
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...
-
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...
