The Je Khenpo (Tibetan: རྗེ་མཁན་པོ་, Wylie: Rje Mkhan-po; "The Chief Abbot of the Central Monastic Body of Bhutan"), formerly called the Dharma Raja by...

Tulku Jigme Chhoeda (born 22 August 1955) became the 70th Je Khenpo (Chief Abbot of The Central Monastic Body) of Bhutan in 1996, and became the longest-serving...

consecrated and added by His Holiness the Je Khenpo. The northern portion is the summer residence of the Je Khenpo and the Central Monastic Body. There are...

དགེ་འདུན་རིན་ཆེན་, Wylie: dge vdun rin chen, 1926–1997) was the 69th Je Khenpo of Bhutan. Gendün Rinchen was born in a small cave by the side of the...

a.k.a. Deb Raja); and a religious leader, the Je Khenpo (རྗེ་མཁན་པོ་). Both the Druk Desi and Je Khenpo were under the nominal authority of the Zhabdrung...

shouting. The Monks led by the Je Khenpo of the Dzong then parade to the Mo chu river bank with lot of fan fare. Je Khenpo then flings oranges into the...

The term khenpo (Tib. མཁན་པོ། mkhen po), or khenmo (in the feminine) is a degree for higher Buddhist studies given in Tibetan Buddhism. In the Nyingma...

unicameral National Assembly, or Tshogdu could force the king to abdicate. The Je Khenpo is the highest religious official of Bhutan and head of the Dratshang...

Constitution, the Dratshang Lhentshog is made up of seven members: the Je Khenpo serves as the chairman, with the Five Lopons (Dzongkha: སློབ་དཔོན་ལྔ་;...

religion of Bhutan. The King appoints the Je Khenpo on the recommendation of the Five Lopons (teachers). The Je Khenpo must be a learned and respected monk...

philosophy. It also mandates that the Druk Gyalpo (King) should appoint the Je Khenpo and Dratshang Lhentshog (The Commission for Monastic Affairs). Cambodia:...

branch headed by the Je Khenpo of the Drukpa Lineage and the civil administrative branch headed by the Druk Desi. Both the Je Khenpo and Druk Desi were...

including Buddhism leaders such as the Dalai Lama, the Gyalwa Karmapa, the Je Khenpo in Bhutan and Shinso Ito of the Shinnyo-en branch of Shingon Buddhism...

branch headed by the Je Khenpo of the Drukpa Lineage and the civil administrative branch headed by the Druk Desi. Both the Je Khenpo and Druk Desi were...

ceremony at the Grand Kuenra, again presided by the Je Khenpo. During this ceremony, the Je Khenpo chanted the Ngoedrup Langwa prayers for the accumulation...

religion Dratshang Lhentshog (state religious commission) Chairman: The Je Khenpo Government Executive Prime Minister Lotay Tshering Lhengye Zhungtshog...

appointed Pekar Jungne as the 1st Je Khenpo, the spiritual head of all monasteries in Bhutan, successive Je Khenpos have acted to date as spiritual regents...

the head of state and a prime minister as the head of government. The Je Khenpo is the head of the state religion, Vajrayana Buddhism. The subalpine Himalayan...

with membership of 1,160 monks is headed by a chief abbot (presently Je Khenpo) who spends six months in Tashechhoe Dzong in Thimphu and the other six...

Padmasambhava and it is believed he concealed many spiritual treasures here. Je Khenpo Sherab Gyaltshen wrote that during the 12th century the temple was looked...

local governors or ministers called penlops. A religious leader, the Je Khenpo, held power over monastic affairs. Successive incarnations of the Zhabdrung...

Desi or the temporal rulers took control of civil administration and Je Khenpos took control of religious affairs. Two successor Shabdrungs – the son...

Hindus. The first Hindu temple was constructed in Thimphu in 2012 by the Je Khenpo, Chief Abbot of Bhutan, and Hindus practice their religion in small to...

is the winter residence of Bhutan's Central Monastic Body led by the Je Khenpo. The Dzong houses the most sacred relics of the Southern Drukpa Kagyu...

ruler of Bhutan) who reigned from 1903 to 1905. He was also appointed the Je Khenpo (religious head of Bhutan) from 1915 until his death in 1917. He was only...

color of the scarf: Saffron scarf for the Druk Gyalpo (king) and the Je Khenpo (chief abbot). Orange scarf for Lyonpos (ministers and other members of...

Center), founded in 2001 by a Tibetan lama Khenpo Kyosang Rinpoche. It is incorporated in the United Kingdom as Je Tsongkapay Ling Buddhist College under...

Wangchuck, Vairochana Rinpoche (born on 23 June 2013). Recognized by the 70th Je Khenpo, Jigme Choedra, as the reincarnation of the Great Lotsawa (The Translator)...

highest monk in the land is the chief abbot of Bhutan, whose title is Je Khenpo. He is theoretically equivalent in stature to the king. The Central Monk...

is the only Bhutanese Drukpa Kagyu monastery in Ladakh, headed by the Je Khenpo in Bhutan, whereas the other Drukpa monasteries in Ladakh are of the Gyalwang...