Oun Kham

Oun Kham

male
Oun Kham (1811 or 1816 - December 15, 1895) was King of Luang Prabang during 1872-1887 and a second time between 1889 and 1895. Between his two...
Gampopa

Gampopa

male, deceased (1153)
Gampopa (1079-1153), also known as Dagpo Lhaje ("physician from Dagpo") and Dakpo Rinpoche ("Precious Master from Dagpo"), founded the Kagyu...
Andreas Gruschke

Andreas Gruschke

male, 49 years old
Andreas Gruschke (born on April 16th, 1960 in Tengen-Blumenfeld (Germany) is a German author, photographer and Tibet researcher. His scientific...
Thrangu Rinpoche

Thrangu Rinpoche

male, 76 years old
Thrangu Rinpoche was born in 1933 in Kham, Tibet. He is a prominent tulku (reincarnate lama) in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, the ninth...
Jigme Phuntsok

Jigme Phuntsok

male, deceased (2004)
Khenpo ("Abbot") Jigme Phuntsok (1933-2004) was a Nyingma lama from the Dhok region of Kham (in what is now the modern Chinese province of Sichuan....
Yeshe Dorje

Yeshe Dorje

male, deceased (1702)
Yeshe Dorje was the eleventh Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Yeshe Dorje was born in Mayshö, Kham. He was discovered b...
Rangjung Rigpe Dorje

Rangjung Rigpe Dorje

male, deceased (1981)
The sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpei Dorje (Wylie Rang 'byung rig pa'i rdo rje) was spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan...
Akong Rinpoche

Akong Rinpoche

male, 70 years old
Chöje Akong Rinpoche is a tulku in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and a founder of the Samye Ling Monastery. He was born in 1939, near R...
Wangchuk Dorje

Wangchuk Dorje

male, deceased (1603)
Wangchuk Dorje was the ninth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Wangchuk Dorje was born in Treshod, Kham. According to...

Phuntsog Namgyal

male, deceased (1670)
Phuntsog Namgyal (1604-1670) was the first chogyal (monarch) of Sikkim, now an Indian state. He consecrated in 1642 at the age of 38. Phuntsog was...