Shabdrung ngawang namgyal biography of donald
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This painting depicts Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal (1594–1651), a teacher of the Drukpa Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and founder of the theocratic state of Bhutan. Zhabdrung can be recognized by his long tapering beard and a broad red fan-like meditation hat.
Artwork Details
- Title
- Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal (1594–1651) with a Brief Lineage
- Dimensions
- 38 3/4 × 30 3/8 × 2 1/4 in.
- Medium
- Pigments on cloth
- Origin
- Bhutan
- Classification(s)
- paintings
- Date
- 19th century
- Credit Line
- Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, Gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin
- Object number
- C2006.66.248
- Bibliography
- The Place of Provenance: Regional Styles in Tibetan Painting
- HAR Number
- 360
- Published references
- David P. Jackson, The Place of Provenance: Regional Styles in Tibetan Painting (Rubin Museum of Art, 2012), 158, 160-161, 164, 168, fig. 8.3.
- Christian Luczanits and Dorji Namgyel, "What is Bhutanese about Paintings from Bhutan?,” MARG (June 2015): 84, 88-90, 96-97, fig. 3, print.
- Marylin M. Rhie and Robert A. F. Thurman, Worlds of Transformation: Tibetan Art of Wisdom and Compassion (Tibet House, 1999), 334, 336, 338, cat. 115.
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In Bhutan, Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel, the founding father, is revered more as a Bodhisattva than anything else. Still, the Zhabdrung was much more than that. He was an extraordinary administrator, an accomplished monk, talented in all the thirteen arts and crafts and a strict vegan whose daily diet composed of milk and fruits.
Modern Bhutan will do well to go beyond reverance and learn from his administration style instead of only reading text books from the West. For example, Zhabdrung travelled extensively so that people need not take the trouble to come to see him. He believed in not taxing the people and maintained that the government should so good that the people will pay tributaries to run the administration.
Here in this piece, though, I would like to dwell on his great military strategies.
Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel was confronted with a series of invasions from Tibet during his reign. However, he did everything to minimize the casualties and just repel the invaders. Besides, he never set off on any conquest of a foreign land. He never wielded a sword. More often that not, he won without fighting. And thus, as contemporary historian Tshering Tashi puts it, he was a true Buddhist warrior.
His biggest feat was in 1648-49, when a joint Tibetan-Mongol f
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Gyalwang Pagsam Wangpo
5th Gyalwang Drukpa (1593–1653)
Gyalwang Pagsam Wangpo | |
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| Title | 5th Gyalwang Drukpa |
| Born | 1593 Chonggye, Tsang, meridional Tibet |
| Died | 1653 |
| Religion | Tibetan Buddhist |
| School | Drukpa Lineage |
| Lineage | Gyalwang Drukpa |
| Teacher | Lhatsewa Ngawang Zangpo (lha rtse ba ngag dbang bzang po) (1546-1615) |
| Period in office | 1597-1653 |
| Reincarnation | Kunkhyen Pema Karpo (1527-1592 CE) |
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