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Dorji family

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The Dorji family (Dzongkha: རྡོ་རྗེ་; Wylie: Rdo-rje) of Bhutan has been a prominent and powerful political family in the kingdom since the 12th century AD. [1]

38 relations: Bhutan, Bhutan House, British expedition to Tibet, Dratshang Lhentshog, Dzongkha, Gelephu, Hindustan Times, House of Wangchuck, India, Indo-Asian News Service, Je Khenpo, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, Jigme Palden Dorji, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, Kalimpong, Kesang Choden (born 1930), Kingdom of Nepal, Kinzang Dorji, Kuensel, Lama, Lhendup Dorji, List of Prime Ministers of Bhutan, Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji, National Assembly (Bhutan), Oxford University Press, Penlop of Trongsa, Phuntsholing, Politics of Bhutan, Royal Bhutan Army, Sikkim, Sonam Topgay Dorji, Switzerland, The Hindu, Tibetan dual system of government, Ugyen Dorji, Ugyen Wangchuck, Wylie transliteration.

Bhutan

Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan (Druk Gyal Khap), is a landlocked country in South Asia.

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Bhutan House

Bhutan House is an estate located in Kalimpong, West Bengal, India, owned by the Dorji family of Bhutan.

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British expedition to Tibet

The British expedition to Tibet, also known as the British invasion of Tibet or the Younghusband expedition to Tibet began in December 1903 and lasted until September 1904.

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Dratshang Lhentshog

The Dratshang Lhentshog (Dzongkha:; Wylie: grwa-tshang lhan-tshogs) is the Commission for the Monastic Affairs of Bhutan.

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Dzongkha

Dzongkha, or Bhutanese (རྫོང་ཁ་), is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by over half a million people in Bhutan; it is the sole official and national language of the Kingdom of Bhutan.

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Gelephu

Gelephu (དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུ་; Wylie: dge-legs-phu), also spelled as Gelyephug, Gelegphu, Gaylegphug or Gaylephug, is a town or Thromde in Sarpang District in Bhutan.

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Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ("Hindustan" being a historical name for India).

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House of Wangchuck

The House of Wangchuck has ruled Bhutan since it was reunified in 1907.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indo-Asian News Service

Indo-Asian News Service or IANS is a private Indian news agency.

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Je Khenpo

The Je Khenpo ("The Chief Abbot of the Central Monastic Body of Bhutan"), formerly called the Dharma Raj by orientalists, is the title given to the senior religious hierarch of Bhutan.

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Jigme Dorji Wangchuck

Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (Wylie: 'jigs med rdo rje dbang phyug; 2 May 1929 – 21 July 1972) was the Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan.

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Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (Wylie: jigs med ge sar rnam rgyal dbang phyug born 21 February 1980) is the current reigning Druk Gyalpo or "Dragon King" of the Kingdom of Bhutan.

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Jigme Palden Dorji

Dasho Jigme Palden Dorji (14 December 1919 – 6 April 1964) was a Bhutanese politician and member of the Dorji family.

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Jigme Singye Wangchuck

Jigme Singye Wangchuck (-->born 11 November 1955) is the former King of Bhutan (Druk Gyalpo) from 1972 until his abdication in favour of his eldest son, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, in 2006.

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Kalimpong

Kalimpong is a hill station in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Kesang Choden (born 1930)

Ashi Kesang Choden (born 21 May 1930) is the Queen Grandmother of Bhutan.

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Kingdom of Nepal

The Hindu Kingdom of Nepal (नेपाल अधिराज्य), also known as the Kingdom of Gorkha (गोर्खा अधिराज्य), was a Hindu kingdom formed in 1768 by the unification of Nepal.

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Kinzang Dorji

Lyonpo Kinzang Dorji (born 19 February 1951) is a two-time former Prime Minister of Bhutan from 2002 to 2003 and again from 2007 to 2008.

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Kuensel

Kuensel (ཀུན་གསལ།, Clarity) is the national newspaper of the Kingdom of Bhutan.

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Lama

Lama ("chief" or "high priest") is a title for a teacher of the Dhamma in Tibetan Buddhism.

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Lhendup Dorji

Dasho (Lord) Lhendup Dorji (6 October 1935 – 15 April 2007) was a member of the powerful and respected aristocratic Dorji family of Bhutan.

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List of Prime Ministers of Bhutan

The Prime Minister of Bhutan is the head of government of Bhutan.

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Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji

Ashi Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji was the mother of Queen Grandmother Ashi Kesang Choden of Bhutan.

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National Assembly (Bhutan)

The National Assembly is the elected lower house of Bhutan's new bicameral Parliament which also comprises the Druk Gyalpo (Dragon King) and the National Council.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Penlop of Trongsa

Penlop of Trongsa (Dzongkha: ཀྲོང་གསར་དཔོན་སློབ་; Wylie: Krong-gsar dpon-slob), also called Chhoetse Penlop (Dzongkha: ཆོས་རྩེ་དཔོན་སློབ་; Wylie: Chos-rtse dpon-slob; also spelled "Chötse"),The spelling of this title varies widely in sources because transliterations of Tibetan script and transcriptions of Tibetan phonology differ.

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Phuntsholing

Phuntsholing, also spelled as Phuentsholing (ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་) is a border town in southern Bhutan and is the administrative seat of Chukha District.

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Politics of Bhutan

The Government of Bhutan has been a constitutional monarchy since 18 July 2008.

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Royal Bhutan Army

The Royal Bhutan Army (བསྟན་སྲུང་དམག་སྡེ་), or RBA, is a branch of the armed forces of the Kingdom of Bhutan responsible for maintaining the country's territorial integrity and sovereignty against security threats.

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Sikkim

Sikkim is a state in Northeast India.

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Sonam Topgay Dorji

Sir Raja Sonam Topgay Dorji (CIE) (Dzongkha:སྟོབས་རྒྱས་རྡོ་རྗེ་; Wylie transliteration: Stobs-rgyas Rdo-rje) (1896–1953), also called Tobgay, was a member of the Dorji family and Bhutanese politician who served between 1917 and 1952 in the Royal Government under the First and Second Kings of Bhutan.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian daily newspaper, headquartered at Chennai.

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Tibetan dual system of government

The Dual System of Government is the traditional diarchal political system of Tibetan peoples whereby the Desi (temporal ruler) coexists with the spiritual authority of the realm, usually unified under a third single ruler.

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Ugyen Dorji

Ugyen Dorji (ཨོ་རྒྱན་རྡོ་རྗེ་,, 1855–1916) was a member of the elite Dorji family and an influential Bhutanese politician.

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Ugyen Wangchuck

Gongsar Ugyen Wangchuck (ཨོ་རྒྱན་དབང་ཕྱུག,, 11 June 1862 – 26 August 1926) was the first Druk Gyalpo (King of Bhutan) from 1907–1926.

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Wylie transliteration

The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating Tibetan script using only the letters available on a typical English language typewriter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorji_family

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