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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 Bāsībā; 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 126,194 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Drogön Chögyal Phagpa is the 6,483rd most popular politician (up from 6,680th in 2019), the 497th most popular biography from China (down from 496th in 2019) and the 292nd most popular Chinese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Drogön Chögyal Phagpa ranks 6,483 out of 19,576. Before him are William II, Count of Hainaut, Ludmilla Tourischeva, Alexander Lebed, Henry II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, Ralph I, Count of Vermandois, and Hajime Sugiyama. After him are Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Sadyr Japarov, Pavel Axelrod, Apollonius Molon, Hendrik Verwoerd, and Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1235, Drogön Chögyal Phagpa ranks 4. Before him are Pope Boniface VIII, Mengu-Timur, and Yolanda of Poland. After him are Muhammad II of Granada, Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria, Hugh III of Cyprus, Shlomo ibn Aderet, Hayton of Corycus, Qian Xuan, and Jacob van Maerlant. Among people deceased in 1280, Drogön Chögyal Phagpa ranks 7. Before him are Albertus Magnus, Pope Nicholas III, Orda Khan, Margaret II, Countess of Flanders, Al-Said Barakah, and Magnus VI of Norway. After him are Yolande II, Countess of Nevers, Guan Hanqing, 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 1,610. Before him are Liu Zongyuan (773), Marpa Lotsawa (1012), Ba Jin (1904), 7th Dalai Lama (1708), Peng Liyuan (1962), and Gampopa (1079). After him are Shaohao (null), Mei Lanfang (1894), Yao Wenyuan (1931), Zuo Zongtang (1812), T. V. Soong (1894), and Dong Qichang (1555).

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Drogön Chögyal Phagpa ranks 292. Before him are Emperor Yizong of Tang (833), Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei (408), Yen Chia-kan (1905), Langdarma (803), He Zizhen (1910), and 7th Dalai Lama (1708). After him are Yao Wenyuan (1931), Zuo Zongtang (1812), T. V. Soong (1894), Zhang Xun (1854), Zhang Chunqiao (1917), and Cao Kun (1862).

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