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Ngawang Namgyal

1594 - 1651

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Ngawang Namgyal (1594–1651), known colloquially as The Bearded Lama, was a Tibetan Buddhist Drukpa Kagyu school Rinpoche, and the unifier of Bhutan as a nation-state. He was later granted the honorific title Zhabdrung Rinpoche, approximately "at whose feet one submits") (Tibetan: ཞབས་དྲུང་ངག་དབང་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་, Wylie: zhabs drung ngag dbang rnam rgyal; alternate spellings include Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ngawang Namgyal has received more than 255,158 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Ngawang Namgyal is the 9,338th most popular politician (down from 9,246th in 2019), the 631st most popular biography from China (down from 607th in 2019) and the 352nd most popular Chinese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ngawang Namgyal ranks 9,338 out of 15,577. Before him are Michael II Apafi, Sigmar Gabriel, Mother Shipton, Vardanes I, Margaret of England, and Nebetah. After him are René Moawad, John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen, Giric, Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria, Petar Snačić, and He Long.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1594, Ngawang Namgyal ranks 12. Before him are Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency, Clara Peeters, Vincenzo II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Frederick V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, and Cornelis van Poelenburgh. After him are John Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Vincenzo Carafa. Among people deceased in 1651, Ngawang Namgyal ranks 12. Before him are Giulia Tofana, Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Tugay Bey, Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Virginia Centurione Bracelli, and Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg. After him are Cornelis de Vos, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, Jacob Adriaensz Backer, Heinrich Albert, and Henry Ireton.

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In China

Among people born in China, Ngawang Namgyal ranks 631 out of 1,392. Before him are Lee Hoi-chuen (1901), Zao Wou-Ki (1920), Hu Hanmin (1879), Xu Zhimo (1897), Thonmi Sambhota (618), and Guan Hanqing (1210). After him are He Long (1896), Hai Rui (1514), Jiong of Xia (null), Zeng Qinghong (1939), Zhou Daguan (1266), and Tan Sitong (1865).

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Ngawang Namgyal ranks 352. Before him are Charlie Soong (1861), Liu Bocheng (1892), Yang Jiechi (1950), Xin Qiji (1140), Bo Yibo (1908), and Hu Hanmin (1879). After him are He Long (1896), Hai Rui (1514), Jiong of Xia (null), Zeng Qinghong (1939), Jin of Xia (null), and Cai Yuanpei (1868).

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