masters started from Tsangpa Gyare, the first Gyalwang Drukpa and founder of the school. The 12th Gyalwang Drukpa, Jigme Pema Wangchen, is the current lineage...

The 12th Gyalwang Drukpa, Jigmet Pema Wangchen (Tibetan: འཇིགས་མེད་པདྨ་དབང་ཆེན་, Wylie: "jigs med pad+ma dbang chen, born 1963), is the head of the Drukpa...

Bhutan and the Northern Drukpa led by Gyalwang Pagsam Wangpo and the successive Gyalwang Drukpa tulkus in Tibet. The Lower Drukpa (Wylie: smad 'brug) was...

2008 after the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa authorised training for them despite centuries-old Buddhist laws banning exercise for nuns. The Drukpa nuns are best...

(1527-1592 CE). In 1597 he was enthroned as the 5th Gyalwang Drukpa hierarch of the Northern branch of the Drukpa Lineage at Tashi Thongmon monastery, resulting...

Green Odyssey. The film recorded a journey of 700 people, led by the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa, to the perilous Himalayan mountain range. They traveled 450 miles...

female practitioners in Tibetan Buddhism by the head of the Drukpa Lineage, the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa,. In November 2023, Tenzin Palmo was named to the BBC's...

be the first of a succession of Gyalwang Drukpa or Drukchen incarnations who, at the time of the fifth Gyalwang Drukpa Pagsam Wangpo (1593—1653), became...

rival candidate—Gyalwang Pagsam Wangpo, an illegitimate son of the Chongje king (Chongje Depa), Ngawang Sönam Dragpa—as the Gyalwang Drukpa incarnation....

nun Pema Tönyö Nyinje (born 1954), the 12th Tai Situpa Jigmet Pema Wangchen (born 1963), the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa Tsundue Pema Lhamo (1886–1922), first...

Gondala." Gandhola, like all the Drukpa monasteries in Ladakh and Lahaul and Spiti, owes allegiance to the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa, abbot of Hemis Monastery in...

Site Site of His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa Drukpa Kagyu Lineage - Dorzong Rinpoche Drukpa Mila Center ~ a Bhutanese Drukpa Kagyu Center Karmapa the Black...

they were rivals of the Drukpa Kagyü. The Lhapa first came into conflict with the early Drukpa teacher, Phajo Drugom Zhigpo (b. 12th century) and finally...

Punakha Dzong Bhutan Drukpa Winter home of the Central Monk Body Ralung Monastery Tsang Ralung Drukpa Seat of the Gyalwang Drukpa Ramoche Temple Lhasa...

(1248–1283). According to the information given by the website of the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Jomo Menmo was born as a "karmic emanation"...

Description Dalai Lama Gaden Tripa Panchen Lama Ani Dob-dob Dorje Lopön Gyalwang Drukpa Gelongma Geshe Je Khenpo Karmapa Khenpo Lama The teachers of Dharma...

7th incarnation) Gochen Tulku Goshir Gyaltsab (on the 12th incarnation) Gyalwang Drukpa (on the 12th incarnation) Jamgon Kongtrul (on the 4th incarnation...

contemporary teachers of Tibetan Buddhist lineages, including the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, have offered understanding towards LGBTQ people while noting that...

foremost disciples were the thirteenth Karmapa, the tenth Shamarpa, Gyalwang Drukpa Trinley Shingta, Drikung Chokyi Gyalwa, Pawo Tsuklag Gyalwa, Drubtop...

CE) – A Root Text for the Precious Gelug/Kagyü Tradition of Mahamudra Gyalwang Kunga Rinchen (1475–1527) – Clarifying the Jewel Rosary of the Fivefold...