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<span class=TibUni16>[[རྒྱལ་དབང་འབྲུག་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།]]</span>  -([[rgyal dbang 'drug pa rin po che]])
 
<span class=TibUni16>[[རྒྱལ་དབང་འབྲུག་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།]]</span>  -([[rgyal dbang 'drug pa rin po che]])
 
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'''Gyalwang Drukpa Rinpoche''', the head lama of the [[Drukpa Kagyu]] tradition. Also known as the '''Gyalwang Drukchen''' and  '''Druk Tamche Khyenpa'''  ''"All-knowing Drukpa"'' ([['brug thams cad mkhyen pa ]]) the successive Gyalwang Drukpas  are  considered to be incarnations of [[Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje]](1161-1211) founder of the Drukpa Kagyu school and one of the main disciples of [[Lingje Repa Pema Dorje]]. Followers of the [[Drukpa Kagyu]] school consider [[Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje]] to have been an emanation of Avalokiteshvara and incarnation of [[Naropa]]. This also applies to the subsequent Gyalwang Drukchen incarnations.  
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'''Gyalwang Drukpa Rinpoche''', the head lama of the [[Drukpa Kagyu]] tradition. Also known as the '''Gyalwang Drukchen''' and  '''Druk Tamche Khyenpa'''  ''"All-knowing Drukpa"'' ([['brug thams cad mkhyen pa ]]) the successive Gyalwang Drukpas  are  considered to be incarnations of [[Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje]](1161-1211) founder of the [[Drukpa Kagyu]] school and one of the main disciples of [[Lingje Repa Pema Dorje]]. Followers of the [[Drukpa Kagyu]] school consider [[Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje]] to have been an emanation of [[Avalokiteshvara]] and incarnation of [[Naropa]]. This also applies to the subsequent Gyalwang Drukpa incarnations.  
  
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There were two immediate incarnations of the [[Kunkhyen Pema Karpo|4th Gyalwang Drukpa, Kunkhyen Pema Karpo]] (1527-1592) - each recognized by a different group of followers: [[Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal]] (1594-1651) and [[Drukchen Pagsam Wangpo| Pagsam Wangpo]], (1593-1653). Pagsam Wangpo was favored by the powerful Tsang ruler Phuntsog Namgyal (1597-1621) and eventually recognized as the official incarnation in Tibet. [[Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal]] went to Bhutan and established his lineage there.
  
 
===<span class=TibUni16>སྐུ་ཕྲེང་།</span> - The Successive Incarnations===
 
===<span class=TibUni16>སྐུ་ཕྲེང་།</span> - The Successive Incarnations===
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*10th Gyalwang Drukpa [[Mipham Chokyi Wangpo]] Chowang
 
*10th Gyalwang Drukpa [[Mipham Chokyi Wangpo]] Chowang
 
*11th Gyalwang Drukpa [[Tendzin Khyenrab Gelek Palzangpo]]
 
*11th Gyalwang Drukpa [[Tendzin Khyenrab Gelek Palzangpo]]
*12th Gyalwang Drukpa [['jigs med pad ma dbang chen]], (b.1963)
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*12th Gyalwang Drukpa [[Jigme Pema Wangchen]] Tendzin Jigdrel Lodro 'jigs med pad ma dbang chen, (b.1963)
 
 
There were two immediate incarnations of the [[Kunkhyen Pema Karpo|4th Gyalwang Drukpa, Kunkhyen Pema Karpo]] (1527-1592) - each recognized by a different group of followers: [[Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal]] (1594-1651) and [[Drukchen Pagsam Wangpo| Pagsam Wangpo]], (1593-1653). Pagsam Wangpo was favoured by the powerful Tsang ruler Phuntsog Namgyal (1597-1621) and eventually recognised as the official incarnation in Tibet. [[Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal]] went to Bhutan and established his lineage there.
 
  
 
===Main Lineages===
 
===Main Lineages===

Revision as of 10:08, 31 July 2008

རྒྱལ་དབང་འབྲུག་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། -(rgyal dbang 'drug pa rin po che)


Gyalwang Drukpa Rinpoche, the head lama of the Drukpa Kagyu tradition. Also known as the Gyalwang Drukchen and Druk Tamche Khyenpa "All-knowing Drukpa" ('brug thams cad mkhyen pa ) the successive Gyalwang Drukpas are considered to be incarnations of Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje(1161-1211) founder of the Drukpa Kagyu school and one of the main disciples of Lingje Repa Pema Dorje. Followers of the Drukpa Kagyu school consider Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje to have been an emanation of Avalokiteshvara and incarnation of Naropa. This also applies to the subsequent Gyalwang Drukpa incarnations.

There were two immediate incarnations of the 4th Gyalwang Drukpa, Kunkhyen Pema Karpo (1527-1592) - each recognized by a different group of followers: Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal (1594-1651) and Pagsam Wangpo, (1593-1653). Pagsam Wangpo was favored by the powerful Tsang ruler Phuntsog Namgyal (1597-1621) and eventually recognized as the official incarnation in Tibet. Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal went to Bhutan and established his lineage there.

སྐུ་ཕྲེང་། - The Successive Incarnations[edit]

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The Gyalwang Drukpa's Website