Tensung Namgyal (Sikkimese: བསྟན་སྲུང༌རྣམ་རྒྱལ་; Wylie: bstan srung rnam rgyal) (1644–1700)[1] was the second Chogyal (monarch) of Sikkim. He succeeded his father Phuntsog Namgyal in 1670 and moved the capital from Yuksom to Rabdentse near Geyzing. He had three wives from Bhutan, Nambi Onmo, Tibet, Lhacham Pema Putik, and a Limbu princess from the Arun valley, Thungwamukma. After establishing Rabdentse as his new capital he built a palace and asked his Limbu Queen to name it. She named it "Song Khim" which in Limbu language means "New Palace". This later went on to become "Sukhim" and "Sikkim".[2] He was succeeded by his son Chakdor Namgyal, borne by his second wife in 1700.[3] He had one last son with his third wife. Though he is not well known his grandson becomes a king of a small kingdom inside his father's rule.[citation needed]
Tensung had an affair with Numbong, a Lepcha noblewoman married to Tasa Aphong, a prominent Lepcha tumyang (village leader), who had a son by him named Yugthing Arub, who would become Sikkim's treasury official during the reign of Tensung's son, Chagdor. Yugthing would later be captured by Bhutanese forces during their invasion of Sikkim in the early 1700s, but gained the respect of the Bhutanese Deb Raja. His descendants, the Barphungpas, would become a significant clan of the Sikkimese aristocracy.[4]
^Sikkim Archived 13 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
^Chumlung, Yakthung (2014). "chapter 5, Kirat Kings of Namgyal Dynasty". Kirat History and Culture: All about south asian Monoglians. ASIN B00JH8W6HQ.
^Alex McKay (1998). Pilgrimage in Tibet. Routledge. ISBN 0-7007-0992-4.
^Kazi, Jigme N. (2020). Sons of Sikkim. Chennai: Notion Press. pp. 74–75.
TensungNamgyal (Sikkimese: བསྟན་སྲུང༌རྣམ་རྒྱལ་; Wylie: bstan srung rnam rgyal) (1644–1700) was the second Chogyal (monarch) of Sikkim. He succeeded his...
as the established religion in Sikkim. He was succeeded by his son, TensungNamgyal in 1670.[citation needed] Sikkim: Past and Present edited by H. G....
were the monarchs of the former Kingdom of Sikkim, which belonged to the Namgyal dynasty. The Chogyal was the absolute monarch of Sikkim from 1642 to 1973...
was first established in 1670 by the 2nd Chogyal TensungNamgyal son of the 1st Chogyal Phuntsog Namgyal by shifting from the first capital of Yuksom that...
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the three venerated lamas at Yuksom. Phuntsog Namgyal was succeeded in 1670 by his son, TensungNamgyal, who moved the capital from Yuksom to Rabdentse...
the three venerated lamas at Yuksom. Phuntsog Namgyal was succeeded in 1670 by his son, TensungNamgyal, who moved the capital from Yuksom to Rabdentse...
his son, Tensun Namgyal in 1670. However, the importance of Yuksum as capital ended when in 1670, Phuntsok Namgyal's son TensungNamgyal, shifted the capital...
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meanwhile increased in Ü. The Tsangpa ruler Karma Tensung (or, in another account, his nephew Karma Phuntsok Namgyal) reacted by invading Ü from his base in Tsang...
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