Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་ འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་, Wylie: jigs med rdo rje dbang phyug; 2 May 1928 – 21 July 1972) was...

marriage, he was also a member of the House of Wangchuck. The brother-in-law of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Dorji was close to his kinsman and accompanied...

centre. It was built in 1953 by the third king of Bhutan Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. The palace lies at the northern end of the Thimphu Valley, on the...

hospital. The stupa, built in 1974 to honor the third Druk Gyalpo, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (1928–1972), is a prominent landmark in the city with its golden...

as the capital of the Kingdom of Bhutan by the 3rd Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. The city extends in a north–south direction on the west bank of...

repair and was restored by both the 1st king, Ugyen Wangchuck and the 2nd king, Jigme Wangchuck in 1927, who renovated the Chenrezig Lhakhang in particular...

internationally Jigme Ugyen Wangchuck (born 2020), the second child of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck (born 1984),...

activist Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck (born 1955), one of the four wives and queens of Bhutanese king Jigme Singye Wangchuck House of Wangchuck, rulers of Bhutan...

the modern era, support of the state religion during the reign of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck includes the manufacture of 10,000 gilded bronze images of the Buddha...

Jambay Lhakhang Je Khempo Jigme Chhoeda Jigme Dorji Wangchuck Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Jigme Singye Wangchuck Jigme Wangchuck Kabney Kagyu Karma Phuntsho...

Je Khenpo Sherab Gyaltshen. In 1971, Kesang Choden Wangchuck, the queen of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck built a Guru Temple next to the old Jowo Temple which...

Penlop Jigme Namgyal ascended to the office of Druk Desi. In 1879, he appointed his 17-year-old son Ugyen Wangchuck as Penlop of Paro. Jigme Namgyal...

King Jigme Wangchuck. He was rumored to have met with Mahatma Gandhi to garner support for the Zhabdrung against the king. The 7th Zhabdrung, Jigme Dorji...

religion and to the central monastic body by the Bhutanese king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck in 2008. He belonged to the Drukpa Lineage of Tibetan and Bhutanese...

examples of tulkus include the Dalai Lamas, the Panchen Lamas, the Samding Dorje Phagmos, Khyentses, the Zhabdrung Rinpoches, and the Kongtruls. The process...

was founded in 1954 under the initiative of the Third Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. In 1967, it was institutionalised as an academy and the Royal Dance...

Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa. At the age of 5 he was brought to Tsurphu Monastery. At the age of six he left Tibet for Bhutan, where King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck...

Edendale and take the money. They earnestly try to donate the money to Jigme Wangchuck (Alec Mapa), the deputy ambassador of the Embassy of Bhutan, and his...

settlement was initiated by Kaji Ugyen Dorji, the grandfather of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck in the 1900s to cultivate the area. The process continued for three...

the dzong by the third Druk Gyalpo, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, at the suggestion of Queen Mayum Choying Wangmo Dorje, in 1961. Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay...

tshon po) Other important students of Marpa include: Marpa Dowa Chokyi Wangchuck (Wylie: mar pa do ba chos kyi dbang phyug). Marpa Goleg (Wylie: mar pa...

corridor contituting the famous Royal Manas National Park, the Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park, and phrumshingla National Park. The Dzongkhag is...

of his father, to honor the memory of the Third King of Bhutan, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (1928–72). Thinley Norbu first came to the United States of America...

Punakha to Thimphu, the present Dzong was rebuilt by the third king, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, as the seat of Government following a different plan from the old...

emblem, contained in a circle, is composed of a double diamond-thunderbolt (dorje) placed above a lotus, surmounted by a jewel and framed by two dragons....

Treaty. A second version was introduced in 1956 for the visit of Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuk to eastern Bhutan; it was based upon photos of its 1949 predecessor...

King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema; Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck Mountains; dragon February 5, 2016 2017 Jigme Singye Wangchuck with...

Lodoe Tsoggde (members of the Royal Advisory Council, now defunct). Gyurme Dorje. Footprint Bhutan. Footprint, [2004]. ISBN 1-903471-32-X. Section "National...

influential Bhutanese politician. He served as the closest adviser to Ugyen Wangchuck, the Penlop of Trongsa and later King of Bhutan. Ugyen Dorji was instrumental...

North America, Asia and Africa. At the command of the fourth King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, a Buddhist college and a meditation centre have been established...