The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Bhutan
This page contains a list of the greatest Bhutanese Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Bhutan. This makes Bhutan the birth place of the 83rd most number of Film Directors behind Niger, and Ecuador.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bhutanese Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Bhutanese Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (b. 1961)
With an HPI of 44.15, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche is the most famous Bhutanese Film Director. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (Tibetan: རྫོང་གསར་འཇམ་དབྱངས་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།, born June 18, 1961), also known as Khyentse Norbu, is a Bhutanese lama, filmmaker, and writer. His five major films are The Cup (1999), Travellers and Magicians (2003), Vara: A Blessing (2013), Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait (2017), and Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache (2019). He is the author of several published books such as What Makes You Not a Buddhist (2007), Not For Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices (2012), The Guru Drinks Bourbon? (2016), Living is Dying (2020), and several non-fiction works on Tibetan Buddhism for free distribution such as Introduction to the Middle Way: Chandrakirti’s Madhyamaka with Commentary (2003) and Buddha Nature: Mahayana-Uttaratantra-Shastra with Commentary (2007). He has also written an autobiography in process entitled Mugwort Born. Many of his teachings are available on the Siddhartha’s Intent YouTube channel. He is the eldest son of Thinley Norbu, and therefore the grandson of Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje. Rinpoche has teachers from all four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism and is a follower and champion of the Rimé (non-sectarian) movement. He considers Dilgo Khyentse as his main guru. He is also the primary custodian of the teachings of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Bhutanese film directors born between 1961 and 1961. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Bhutanese film directors include Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche.
