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Dzongpen (Dzongkha: རྗོང་དཔོན་; Wylie: rjong-dpon; also
spelled "
Dzongpon," "
Dzongpön," "Jongpen," "Jongpon," "Jongpön") is a
Dzongkha term
roughly translated...
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successive Druk Desi, ponlop, and
dzongpon, and
intense rivalries developed among the
ponlop of
Tongsa and Paro and the
dzongpon of Punakha, Thimphu, and Wangdue...
- huts[citation needed] but was also the
headquarters of the
District Officer, the
Dzongpön. It was on the main
caravan route coming from Amdo to
Central Tibet. In...
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Monpa respectively. The
officials who
collected the
taxes were
called Dzongpon. The tax was
carried to
Tawang Monastery and then to
Lhasa via
Tsona city...
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Bhutan rejected the
offer and Eden
claimed to have been mistreated. The
dzongpon of
Punakha – who had
emerged victorious – had
broken with the
central government...
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title Dzongpen (Dzongkha: རྗོང་དཔོན་; Wylie: rjong-dpon; also "Jongpen," "
Dzongpön"); both
titles may be
translated as "governor."
Under Bhutan's
early theocratic...
- The
kingdom was
divided into
twelve Dzongs, or
districts under a
Lepcha Dzongpon (governor) who
headed a
council of
twelve ministers.
During his
reign Buddhism...
- Prefecture,
Formally called Metok Dzong, it used to be the
residence of
Dzongpon (district head)
representing the
authority of
Tibetan Lhasa Govt (Ganden...
- speech, mind, and body.
Increasingly secular regional lords (penlops and
dzongpons)
competed for
power amid a
backdrop of
civil war over the
Shabdrung and...
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though not over the town of
Shigatse itself,
which was
administered by a
dzongpön (prefect)
appointed from Lhasa. The
monastery is
located on a hill in the...
