Gongma Drakpa Gyaltsen information

Gongma Drakpa Gyaltsen (Tibetan: གྲགས་ཕ་རྒྱལ་མཚན, Wylie: Gong ma grags pa rgyal mts'an, 1374–1432) was a King of Tibet who ruled in 1385–1432. He belonged...

main disciples of Je Tsongkhapa Gongma Drakpa Gyaltsen (1374–1432), ruler of Tibet from 1385 to 1432 Tulku Dragpa Gyaltsen (1619–1656), contemporary of the...

Ngawang Drakpa (Gyaltsen) (Tibetan: ངག་དབང་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན, Wylie: Ngag dbang grags pa rgyal mts'an, d. 1603 or 1604) was a king in Central Tibet who ruled...

content with the dignity of desi, the fifth ruler Drakpa Gyaltsen appropriated the royal titles gongma (the high one, superior) and chogyal. From 1354 to...

consider Trülku Drakpa Gyeltsen to be the 6th Kyorlung Ngari Tulku, a line of incarnate lamas which began with Duldzin Dragpa Gyaltsen (1374-1434), an...

Sumpa). Before his death in 1554, Sönam Drakpa established his own estate, the Upper Chamber (Zimkhang Gongma), which was named because of its location...

Kunga Lekpa was a son of Sangye Gyaltsen, a brother of the last effective ruler of the dynasty, Gongma Drakpa Gyaltsen. His mother was Dzompama, a lady...

gongma. Rebellions against the Phagmodrupa ruler took place in 1553-54 and forced him to step down in favour of his grandson Ngawang Drakpa Gyaltsen....

the Tibetan calendar, the anniversary of the Paranirvana of Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen. His birth was accompanied by a slight earthquake in New Delhi where...

he received the royal title gongma, "the high one". He married a lady from Chontse who gave birth to Ngawang Drakpa Gyaltsen. In another marriage, with...

then went to the Gongma (King) Drakpa Jungne to obtain permission for the festival to be held again. The next New Year, the Gongma was so impressed by...

ambitions of the rival Tsangpa Dynasty. The preceding king (gongma) Ngawang Drakpa Gyaltsen had led an inefficient but relatively peaceful reign in the...