- of
Bhutan as a nation-state. He was
later granted the
honorific title Zhabdrung Rinpoche,
approximately "at
whose feet one submits" (Tibetan: ཞབས་དྲུང་ངག་དབང་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་...
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Zhabdrung (also Shabdrung; Tibetan: ཞབས་དྲུང་, Wylie: zhabs-drung; "before the feet of ones submit") was a
title used when
referring to or addressing...
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Zhabdrung (also Shabdrung):
Zhabdrung - was a
title used when
referring to or
addressing great lamas in Tibet,
particularly those who held a hereditary...
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Bhutan was
founded and
unified as a
country by
Ngawang Namgyal, 1st
Zhabdrung Rinpoche in the mid–17th century.
After his
death in 1651,
Bhutan nominally...
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religious administrations, both
unified under the
nominal authority of the
Zhabdrung Rinpoche. Druk,
meaning 'thunder dragon',
refers symbolically to Bhutan...
- in 1616 when
Ngawanag Namgyal, a lama from
western Tibet known as the
Zhabdrung Rinpoche,
defeated three Tibetan invasions,
subjugated rival religious...
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Punakha District in Punakha, Bhutan.
Constructed by
Ngawang Namgyal, 1st
Zhabdrung Rinpoche, in 1637–38, it is the
second oldest and second-largest dzong...
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government of
theocratic and
civil administrators.
Namgyal became the
first Zhabdrung Rinpoche and his
successors acted as the
spiritual leaders of Bhutan,...
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spiritual rulers. In Bhutan, the
Chogyal were
given the
respectful title Zhabdrung. In this context, the
Chogyal was a
recognised reincarnation (or succession...
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century under the
leadership of
Ngawang Namgyal, the 1st
Zhabdrung Rinpoche. The
Zhabdrung relied on
visions and
omens to site each of the dzongs. Modern...
