Ngawang Tashi Bapu (born 1968), former Principal Chant Master of Drepung Loseling Monastery
Ngawang Choephel (born 1966), documentary filmmaker, director, producer, and musician
Ngawang Jigme Drakpa (died 1597), the last ruling prince of Tsang (West Central Tibet) of the Rinpungpa Dynasty
Ngawang Tashi Drakpa (1488–1564), king of Tibet who ruled in 1499–1554 and 1556/57–1564
Ngawang Drakpa Gyaltsen (died 1603), king in Central Tibet who ruled in 1554–1556/57, and 1576–1603/04
Etsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (born 1935), 14th Dalai Lama, highest spiritual leader and head of Tibet
Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (1617–1682), 5th Dalai Lama, with effective temporal and spiritual power over all Tibet
Ngawang Tsoknyi Gyatso (born 1966), Tibetan Buddhist teacher and author, founder of the Pundarika Foundation
Ngawang Yeshey Gyatso (1686–1725), pretender for the position of the 6th Dalai Lama of Tibet
Ngawang Jamphel (born 1992), Bhutanese footballer
Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme (1910–2009), Tibetan senior official with various military and political responsibilities
Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga (born 1945), the 41st Sakya Trizin, the throne holder of the Sakya Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism 1952–2017
Trulshik Rinpoche Ngawang Chökyi Lodrö (1923–2011), teacher of the 14th Dalai Lama and of many Nyingma lamas
Ngawang Namgyal (1594–1651), Tibetan Buddhist lama and the unifier of Bhutan as a nation-state
Ngawang Namgyal (Rinpungpa) (died 1544), prince of the Rinpungpa Dynasty in West Central Tibet
Ngawang Pem, Bhutanese civil servant, the first woman Dzongda in Bhutan
Ngawang Rinchen (born 1984), Chinese actor of Tibetan descent
Ngawang Jigdral Rinpoche, Nyingma tulku of Sherpa decent
Ngawang Samten (born 1956), Tibetan educationist, Tibetologist, vice chancellor of the Central University for Tibetan Studies
Ngawang Sangdrol (born 1977), former political prisoner, imprisoned at the age of 13 by the Government of the People's Republic of China for peacefully demonstrating against the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1992
Ngawang Sungrab Thutob (1874–1952), known as Geshe Wangyal and "America's first lama," Buddhist lama and scholar of Kalmyk origin
Ngawang Namgyal (1594–1651), known colloquially as The Bearded Lama, was a Tibetan Buddhist Drukpa Kagyu school Rinpoche, and the unifier of Bhutan as...
Ngawang may refer to: Ngawang Tashi Bapu (born 1968), former Principal Chant Master of Drepung Loseling Monastery Ngawang Choephel (born 1966), documentary...
The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name: Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, also known as Tenzin Gyatso; né Lhamo Thondup; born 6 July 1935)...
Ngawang Sangdrol (born in Lhasa, Tibet, in 1977) is a former political prisoner, imprisoned at the age of 13 by the Government of the People's Republic...
Ngawang Samten is a Tibetan educationist, Tibetologist and the vice chancellor of the Central University for Tibetan Studies. Besides editing publications...
Ngawang Choephel is a documentary filmmaker, director, producer, and musician. Choephel was born in western Tibet in 1966. When he was two years old,...
Ngawang Pem is a Bhutanese civil servant. In 2012, she was appointed Dzongda (district governor) of Tsirang District, making her the first woman Dzongda...
Tsoknyi Rinpoche (Wylie tshogs gnyis rin po che) or Ngawang Tsoknyi Gyatso (born 13 March 1966) is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher and author, and the founder...
Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga served as the 41st Sakya Trizin, the throne holder of the Sakya Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, from his appointment in 1952 until...
Khenpo Ngawang Palzang (Tibetan: མཁན་པོ་ངག་དབང་དཔལ་བཟང་, Wylie: mkhan po ngag dbang dpal bzang), also known as Khenpo Ngagchung, is considered by the...
Ngawang Jigme Drakpa (Tibetan: ཎགག་དབང་ཨཇིགས་མེད་གྲགས་པ, Wylie: Ngag dbang ajigs med grags pa) (died 1597) was the last ruling prince of Tsang (West Central...
Ngawang Jamphel (born 27 September 1992) is a Bhutanese footballer who plays for Thimphu City FC and the Bhutan national football team. Jamphel made his...
Ngawang Rinchen (Tibetan: ངག་དབང་རིན་ཆེན་, Wylie: ngag dbang rin chen; Chinese: 阿旺仁青; pinyin: Āwàng Rénqīng; born 26 February 1984) is a Chinese actor...
held a hereditary lineage. In Bhutan the title almost always refers to Ngawang Namgyal (1594–1651), the founder of the Bhutanese state, or one of his...
Penny-Dimri, Sandra. (1995). "The Lineage of His Holiness Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga." The Tibet Journal. Vol. XX, No. 4 Winter 1995, pp. 64–92. ISSN 0970-5368...
Sardar Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa (23) "Big" Pemba Nawang Dorje Ngawang Sya Kya Ngawang Tendi Ngawang Topche (died a few months later from HAPE he contracted...
ceremony before the Jowo image in Lhasa. As Dalai Lama he received the name Ngawang Yeshe Gyatso, or Yeshe Gyatso for short. In Beijing the Kangxi Emperor...
and again in 1639, hoping to throttle Ngawang Namgyal's popularity before it spread too far. In 1634 Ngawang Namgyal defeated Karma Tenkyong's army in...
Bhutan was founded and unified as a country by Ngawang Namgyal, 1st Zhabdrung Rinpoche in the mid–17th century. After his death in 1651, Bhutan nominally...
Dragpa Gyaltsen in previous lives. At the age of 8 he received the name Ngawang Kalsang, upon entering Tashi Lhunpo Monastery. After 20 years of study...
Geshe Ngawang Tashi Bapu a.k.a. Lama Tashi (born 22 February 1968 in Thembang village of West Kameng in Arunachal Pradesh, India) is former Principal...
Ngawang Tashi Drakpa (Tibetan: ངག་དབང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་གྲགས་པ, Wylie: Ngag dbang bkra shis grags pa, 1488–1564) was a king of Tibet who ruled in 1499–1554 and...
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