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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...
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Gampopa
male, deceased - Gampopa (1079-1153), also known as Dagpo Lhaje ("physician from Dagpo") and Dakpo Rinpoche ("Precious Master from Dagpo"), founded the Kagyu...
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Andreas Gruschke
male - Andreas Gruschke (born on April 16th, 1960 in Tengen-Blumenfe
ld (Germany) is a German author, photographer and Tibet researcher. His scientific...
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Thrangu Rinpoche
male - 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...
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Jigme Phuntsok
male, deceased - 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....
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Yeshe Dorje
male, deceased - 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...
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Rangjung Rigpe Dorje
male, deceased - 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...
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Akong Rinpoche
male - 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...
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Wangchuk Dorje
male, deceased - Wangchuk Dorje was the ninth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Wangchuk Dorje was born in Treshod, Kham. According to...
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Phuntsog Namgyal
male, deceased - 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...
