Desi Jigme Namgyal of Bhutan (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་; Wylie: jigs med rnam rgyal, 1825–1881) is a forefather of the Wangchuck Dynasty. He served...

Gyalpo (Dzongkha: Dragon King), the monarch of the Kingdom of Bhutan. After his father Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicated the throne, he became the monarch...

Brigadier Bahadur Namgyal, head of the Royal Bhutan Army, was amongst those executed for the murder plot. The night before the assassination Jigme had met with...

Nizal Rica, Dasho Jigme Namgyal, Dasho Wangchuck Dorji Namgyal, Ashi Yiwang Pindarica, Ashi Namzay Kumutha and the late Ashi Dechen.  Bhutan: Maharaja Ugyen...

Gross domestic product. Jigme Singye Wangchuck was born in Dechencholing Palace in Thimphu, Bhutan, on 11 November 1955. to Jigme Dorji Wangchuck and Ashi...

clear, Bhutan has continuously and successfully defended its sovereignty. The consolidation of Bhutan occurred in 1616 when Ngawanag Namgyal, a lama...

Bhutan from the southern Pala Empire of Bengal. During the 16th century, Ngawang Namgyal unified the valleys of Bhutan into a single state. Namgyal defeated...

twice as high as neighbours Nepal, Bhutan and India. His first son, the former crown prince Tenzing Kunzang Jigme Namgyal, died in 1978 in a car accident...

Ngawang Namgyal (1594–1651), known colloquially as The Bearded Lama, was a Tibetan Buddhist Drukpa Kagyu school Rinpoche, and the unifier of Bhutan as a...

Wangchuck, the grandmother of the current Bhutanese king, Druk Gyalpo Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck. Located in Kalimpong, the estate is on Rishi Road, leaving...

of Bhutan is a part of the Royal Bhutan Army, but is independently under the personal command of the King of Bhutan (as of 2023, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck)...

anniversary of Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck the 5th and current Druk Gyalpo. Shabdrung Kurchoe marks the passing of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal in 1651 at...

History of Bhutan Jakar Dzong Jambay Lhakhang Je Khempo Jigme Chhoeda Jigme Dorji Wangchuck Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Jigme Singye Wangchuck Jigme Wangchuck...

Wangchuck kings of Bhutan, namely: Ugyen Wangchuck (b.1861–d.1926) "First King"; reigned 17 December 1907 – 21 August 1926. Jigme Wangchuck (b.1905–d...

and most powerful advisor to the King of Bhutan. The 70th and present Je Khenpo is Jigme Chhoeda. Bhutan's head of government is its Prime Minister....

recognized by Bhutan; subsequent claimants to the incarnation have not been recognized by the government.: 27  In 1962, Jigme Ngawang Namgyal (known as Zhabdrung...

Trongsa Jigme Namgyal (father of King Ugyen Wangchuck and of her great-great-grandmother, Ashi Yeshay Choden). The King and Queen of Bhutan are distant...

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...

Both are descendants of the 48th Druk Desi of Bhutan and 10th Penlop of Trongsa, Jigme Namgyal. Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck announced his engagement...

succeeded by his son, Tensung Namgyal in 1670.[citation needed] Sikkim: Past and Present edited by H. G. Joshi Kazi, Jigme N. (2020). Sons of Sikkim. Chennai:...

of Wangchuk dynasty rule in Bhutan and also the Coronation Celebrations of the fifth king of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, held on November...

uncle and head of the Royal Bhutan Army, Namgyal Bahadur, was among those executed for their role in the assassination of Jigme palden Dorji. The post of...

Gyalpo of Bhutan. He began to open Bhutan to the outside world, began modernization, and took the first step towards democratization. Jigme Dorji Wangchuck...

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...

king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck. She is the current Queen Mother (Gyalyum Kude) of Bhutan, as she is the mother of the current Bhutanese king Jigme Khesar...

Chakdor Namgyal (Sikkimese: ཕྱག་དོར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་; Wylie: phyag dor rnam rgyal) was the third Chogyal (king) of Sikkim. He succeeded Tensung Namgyal in 1700...

sprang out of these camps. In 2005, King Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicated the throne to this son Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck and announced that the country's...

district. The name is said to have been given by the Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal who was searching for the best location for a dzong to prevent incursions...

Bhutan Bhutan War (Duar War) Slavery in Bhutan Treaty of Punakha Dorji family Ugyen Dorji Jigme Palden Dorji House of Wangchuck Jigme Namgyal Ugyen Wangchuck...

his father Phuntsog Namgyal in 1670 and moved the capital from Yuksom to Rabdentse near Geyzing. He had three wives from Bhutan, Nambi Onmo, Tibet, Lhacham...