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    The Chogyal ("Dharma Kings", Tibetan: ཆོས་རྒྱལ, Wylie: chos rgyal) were the monarchs of the former Kingdom of Sikkim, which belonged to the Namgyal dynasty...
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    Drogön Chogyal Phagpa (Tibetan: འགྲོ་མགོན་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཕགས་པ་, Wylie: ʼgro mgon chos rgyal ʼphags pa; Chinese: 八思巴 ʼphags pa; 1235 – 15 December 1280), was...
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    don-grub rnam-rgyal; 23 May 1923 – 29 January 1982) was the 12th and last Chogyal (king) of the Kingdom of Sikkim. Palden thondup Namgyal was born on 23...
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  • Chogyal Dago Rigdzin is a Bhutanese jurist who has been serving as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bhutan since 2020. From 2023 to 2024, Rigdzin...
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    includes Darjeeling. The establishment of the Buddhist kingdom under the Chogyal in the 17th century was followed by British rule in Sikkim and thereafter...
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    Bhutan. Because of this, Namkhai Norbu also bears the honorary title 'Chögyal' (Tibetan: ཆོས་རྒྱལ་, Wylie: chos rgyal), meaning 'Dharma King'. Such recognitions...
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    from 1642 to 16 May 1975, when it was annexed by India. It was ruled by Chogyals of the Namgyal dynasty. According to legend, Khye Bumsa, a 14th-century...
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    Chogyal Wangchuk Tenzing Namgyal (Sikkimese: སྟོབས་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་; Wylie: stobs-rgyal dbang-phyug bstan-'dzin rnam-rgyal; born 1 April...
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  • Chogyal Minjur Tempa (Dzongkha: ༼ཆོས་རྒྱལ་སྨིན་འགྱུར།༽་; born Damchho Lhendrub in 1613) was the third Druk Desi, the secular head of Bhutan, and previously...
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  • constitution that provided for the country becoming a state of India, which the Chogyal signed under pressure from India. On 4 September 1974 the Indian Lok Sabha...
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