The Druk Desi (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་སྡེ་སྲིད་, Wylie: 'brug sde-srid; also called Deb Raja) was the title of the secular (administrative) rulers of Bhutan...
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List of rulers of Bhutan (redirect from Desi Druki)
secular leader, the Druk Desi (འབྲུག་སྡེ་སྲིད་, a.k.a. Deb Raja); and a religious leader, the Je Khenpo (རྗེ་མཁན་པོ་). Both the Druk Desi and Je Khenpo were...
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civil government headed by the Druk Desi (regent of Bhutan, also known as Deb Raja in Western sources). The Druk Desi was either a monk or a member of...
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1825–1881) is a forefather of the Wangchuck Dynasty. He served as 51st Druk Desi (Deb Raja, the secular executive) of Bhutan (1870–1873), and held the...
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Wangdicholing Palace, Jakar, Bumthang in 1862. His father, Jigme Namgyal, was the Druk Desi of Bhutan at the time and he was apprenticed at the court of his father...
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stepbrother (1680) of Ngawang Namgyal – were effectively controlled by the Druk Desi and Je Khenpo until power was further splintered through the innovation...
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Lineage and the civil administrative branch headed by the Druk Desi. Both the Je Khenpo and Druk Desi were under the nominal authority of the Shabdrung, a...
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dzongpens were theoretically masters of their own realms but servants of the Druk Desi. In practice, however, they were under minimal central government control...
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Kuenga Gyatsho (2003). The Necklace of Pearls: Biography of the 13th Druk Desi Sherab Wangchuk (1697-1765). Thimphu: Centre for Bhutan Studies. Mehra...
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Tenzin Rabgye (1638–1696) was the fourth Druk Desi (secular ruler of Bhutan) who ruled from 1680 to 1694. He is believed to have been the first to have...
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taught Vajrayana. A later monastery complex was built in 1692 by 4th Druk Desi Tenzin Rabgey around the Taktsang Senge Samdup cave, where Guru Padmasambhava...
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time a Bhutanese dependency. The Druk Desi petitioned Lhasa unsuccessfully for assistance. On 25 April 1774, the Druk Desi signed a Treaty of Peace with...
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dbang phyug; 1905 – 30 March 1952) was the (Dzongkha འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གཉིས་པ) 2nd Druk Gyalpo or king of Bhutan from 26 August 1926, until his death. He pursued...
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dzongpens were theoretically masters of their own realms but servants of the Druk Desi. In practice, however, they were under minimal central government control...
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preside over the religious institutions, and an administrative leader (the Druk Desi) as head of secular affairs, a policy which exists, in modified form,...
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Namgyal in 1651. Under this system, the Zhabdrung reigned over the temporal Druk Desi and religious Je Khenpo. Two successor Zhabdrungs – the son (1651) and...
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the north of Bengal, whose territory had been invaded by Zhidar, the Druk Desi of Bhutan the previous year. Hastings agreed to help on the condition...
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Thimphu valley. It was established in 1715 as the seat of the 8th Druk Desi, Druk Rabgye. Druk Wangditse Lhakhang is one of the oldest temples in Thimphu, and...
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present king) and her sister Pema Dechen. Her ancestor is also the 48th Druk Desi and 10th Penlop of Trongsa Jigme Namgyal (father of King Ugyen Wangchuck...
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broken with the central government and set up a rival Druk Desi while the legitimate druk desi sought the protection of the penlop of Paro and was later...
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Chogyal (section Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan)
authority, the Je Khenpo, and the highest temporal ruler, the Deb Raja or Druk Desi. There were two main lines of Zhabdrung incarnations in Bhutan. The region...
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1955) is a member of the House of Wangchuck who was the king of Bhutan (Druk Gyalpo) from 1972 until his abdication in 2006. Under Wangchuk's reign, ethnic...
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headed by the Je Khenpo, and the administrative branch, headed by the Druk Desi. The position of Je Khenpo was granted on merit by-election, and typically...
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western bank of the Wang Chu. It has traditionally been the seat of the Druk Desi (or "Deb Raja"), the head of Bhutan's civil government, an office which...
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this system, political power was vested in an administrative leader, the Druk Desi, assisted by a collection of local governors or ministers called penlops...
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Third Desi Chogyal Minjur Tempa (Dzongkha:༼སྡེ་སྲིད་ཁྲི་རབས་གསུམ་པ་ཆོས་རྒྱ་མི་འགྱུར་བསྟན་པ༽ born Damchho Lhendrub in 1613) was the third Druk Desi, the...
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became Queen Ashi Jetsun Pema Wangchuck. Both are descendants of the 48th Druk Desi of Bhutan and 10th Penlop of Trongsa, Jigme Namgyal. Jigme Khesar Namgyel...
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1956), Bhutanese civil servant Gyalsey Tenzin Rabgye (1638–1696), fourth Druk Desi (secular ruler) of Bhutan Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen (1895–1977), leader...
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Ngodub (Dzongkha: ཡེ་ཤེས་དངོས་གྲུབ།) (1851–1917) was the 54th and the last Druk Desi (secular ruler of Bhutan) who reigned from 1903 to 1905. He was also appointed...
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the north of Bengal, whose territory had been invaded by the Zhidar the Druk Desi of the Kingdom of Bhutan the previous year. Hastings agreed to help on...
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