FILM DIRECTOR

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

1961 - Today

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche has received more than 188,659 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche is the 1,401st most popular film director (down from 1,331st in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Bhutan (down from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Bhutanese Film Director.

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  • 190k

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  • 51.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche ranks 1,401 out of 2,041. Before him are Pierre Morel, Pál Gábor, Terry Zwigoff, Robert Lepage, Geoffrey Unsworth, and Aleksandr Rogozhkin. After him are Paul Bartel, Ole Bornedal, Alan Rudolph, Kirill Serebrennikov, Haskell Wexler, and Albert Pyun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche ranks 398. Before him are Danny Carey, Todd McFarlane, Abigail Johnson, Lolita Davidovich, Andrés Calamaro, and Nancy Travis. After him are Monika Fagerholm, Jorge Da Silva, Željko Buvač, Sam Robards, K.d. lang, and Simon Russell Beale.

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In Bhutan

Among people born in Bhutan, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche ranks 8 out of 17. Before him are Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (1929), Jigme Singye Wangchuck (1955), Jigme Wangchuck (1905), Lotay Tshering (1969), Jigme Thinley (1952), and Tshering Tobgay (1965). After him are Sangay Ngedup (1953), Jetsun Pema (1990), Khandu Wangchuk (1950), Kunzang Choden (1952), Wangay Dorji (1974), and Karma (1990).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Bhutan

Among film directors born in Bhutan, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche ranks 1. 

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