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Drogön Chögyal Phagpa

1235 - 1280

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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 the fifth leader of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. He was also the first Imperial Preceptor of the Yuan dynasty and was concurrently named the director of the Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs, serving during the reign of Kublai Khan. Historical tradition remembers him as the first vice-ruler of Tibet under the Yuan emperor as well as one of the Five Sakya patriarchs (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་གོང་མ་རྣམ་ལྔ་, Wylie: sa skya gong ma rnam lnga). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Drogön Chögyal Phagpa has received more than 111,863 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Drogön Chögyal Phagpa is the 6,696th most popular politician (down from 6,639th in 2019), the 497th most popular biography from China (down from 489th in 2019) and the 295th most popular Chinese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Drogön Chögyal Phagpa ranks 6,696 out of 15,577Before him are Sigfried, Count of the Ardennes, Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, Guillaume de Chartres, Princess Hilda of Nassau, John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, and Eleanor of Castile. After him are Titus Flavius Clemens, Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne, Marc Ravalomanana, Emperor An of Jin, Lucius Licinius Crassus, and Lusius Quietus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1235, Drogön Chögyal Phagpa ranks 6Before him are Pope Boniface VIII, Mengu-Timur, Yolanda of Poland, Muhammad II of Granada, and Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria. After him are Hugh III of Cyprus, Shlomo ibn Aderet, Hayton of Corycus, and Jacob van Maerlant. Among people deceased in 1280, Drogön Chögyal Phagpa ranks 7Before him are Albertus Magnus, Pope Nicholas III, Orda Khan, Margaret II, Countess of Flanders, Magnus VI of Norway, and Al-Said Barakah. After him are Guan Hanqing, Yolande II, Countess of Nevers, Jacopo Contarini, and John I de la Roche.

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In China

Among people born in China, Drogön Chögyal Phagpa ranks 497 out of 1,392Before him are Liu Xin (-50), Shiing-Shen Chern (1911), Eileen Chang (1920), Chen Yi (1901), Li Cunxu (885), and Deng Yingchao (1904). After him are Rinchinbal Khan (1326), Zhang Xun (1854), Chen Kaige (1952), Shen Yue (441), Emperor Xiaowu of Jin (362), and Zhang Juzheng (1525).

Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Drogön Chögyal Phagpa ranks 295Before him are He Zizhen (1910), Feng Guozhang (1859), Yen Chia-kan (1905), Chen Yi (1901), Li Cunxu (885), and Deng Yingchao (1904). After him are Rinchinbal Khan (1326), Zhang Xun (1854), Emperor Xiaowu of Jin (362), Zhang Juzheng (1525), Bai Chongxi (1893), and Liu Penzi (11).