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Ngawang Namgyal

1594 - 1651

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Ngawang Namgyal (Tibetan: ཞབས་དྲུང་ངག་དབང་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་, Wylie: zhabs drung ngag dbang rnam rgyal; alternate spellings include Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel; 1594–1651), known colloquially as The Bearded Lama, was a Tibetan Buddhist Drukpa Kagyu school Rinpoche, and the unifier of Bhutan as a nation-state. He was later granted the honorific title Zhabdrung Rinpoche, approximately "at whose feet one submits". In addition to unifying the various warring fiefdoms for the first time in the 1630s, he also sought to create a distinct Bhutanese cultural identity separate from the Tibetan culture from which it was derived. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ngawang Namgyal is the 2,642nd most popular politician (up from 7,606th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from China (up from 562nd in 2019) and the 108th most popular Chinese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ngawang Namgyal ranks 2,642 out of 19,576. Before him are George William, Elector of Brandenburg, John I of Castile, Alfonso IX of León, Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Peng Dehuai, and Javier Milei. After him are Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I, John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, Abbas I of Egypt, Julius Nyerere, Erich Mielke, and Christopher I of Denmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1594, Ngawang Namgyal ranks 3. Before him are Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and Nicolas Poussin. After him are Willem Claesz. Heda, Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, Clara Peeters, César, Duke of Vendôme, Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency, Frederick V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Cornelis van Poelenburgh, and Vincenzo II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. Among people deceased in 1651, Ngawang Namgyal ranks 3. Before him are Kösem Sultan, and Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria. After him are Lennart Torstensson, Tokugawa Iemitsu, Abraham Bloemaert, Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Tugay Bey, Giulia Tofana, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, and Cornelis de Vos.

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In China

Among people born in China, Ngawang Namgyal ranks 173 out of 1,610. Before him are Kaidu (1230), Bao Zheng (999), Emperor Jing of Han (-188), Je Tsongkhapa (1357), Tsung-Dao Lee (1926), and Peng Dehuai (1898). After him are Cao Rui (205), Sun Bin (-401), Liu Shan (207), Taichang Emperor (1582), Li Hongzhang (1823), and Rinchinbal Khan (1326).

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Ngawang Namgyal ranks 108. Before him are Tianqi Emperor (1605), Empress Wanrong (1906), Kaidu (1230), Bao Zheng (999), Emperor Jing of Han (-188), and Peng Dehuai (1898). After him are Cao Rui (205), Liu Shan (207), Taichang Emperor (1582), Li Hongzhang (1823), Rinchinbal Khan (1326), and Emperor Hui of Han (-210).

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