One of these three, Drukpa, was founded by Tsangpa Gyare's nephew and spiritual heir Önrey Dharma Sengye and afterward spread throughout Bhutan.

With royal patronage, successive reincarnations of Tagtshang Repa spread the Drukpa lineage all over the kingdom of Ladakh as well as Zanskar and Lahaul.

In the 12th century, the Drukpa Kagyupa school was established and remains the dominant form of Buddhism in Bhutan today.

The theocratic government was founded by an expatriate Drukpa monk, Ngawang Namgyal, who arrived in Bhutan in 1616 seeking freedom from the domination of the Gelugpa subsect led by the Dalai Lama ( Ocean Lama ) in Lhasa.

The invasions were thwarted, and the Drukpa subsect developed a strong presence in western and central Bhutan, leaving Ngawang Namgyal supreme.

Ladakh had earlier granted Bhutan several enclaves near Mount Kailash in western Tibet ; these were monasteries of the Drukpa sect and so fell under the authority of the Bhutanese Je Khenpo and the Shabdrung.

Changangkha Lhakhang is one of the oldest temples in the Thimphu valley, having been built in the 15th century by a descendant of Phajo Drugom Shigpo, the founder of the Drukpa school in Bhutan.

It was at Chagri in 1623 that he established the first Drukpa Kagyu monastic order in Bhutan.

In the 13th century, it was visited by Phajo Drugom Zhigpo, the Tibetan Lama who first established the Drukpa Kagyu tradition in Bhutan.

The reason for declaring the takin as a National Animal of Bhutan on 25 November 2005 ( Budorcas taxicolor ) is attributed to a legend of the animal's creation in Bhutan in the 15th century by Lama Drukpa Kunley.

Mahayana Buddhism is the state religion and the dominant ethnic group is Drukpa of Kagyu Buddhism, while in southern Bhutan Hindus of Nepali ethnicity are dominant.

The Constitution of Bhutan provides for a government consisting of three main branches – executive, legislative, and judicial – plus the officially apolitical Dratshang Lhentshog ( Monastic Affairs Commission ) of the Drukpa Kagyu state religion.

Unlike the dzongs built under the direction of the Shabdrung for defensive purposes, Dobji dzong was constructed to serve a religious purpose, marking the spot where Ngawang Chogyel < cite >"... followed a spring water which originated from beneath the throne of Jetsun Milarepa in Druk Ralung to find a suitable site for establishing a center to propagate Drukpa Kagyu teachings in Bhutan "</ cite >.

In Bhutan the Drukpa Lineage is the dominant school and state religion.

His rival, Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, was then invited to Western Bhutan and eventually he unified the entire country and established Drukpa as the preeminent Buddhist school from Haa all the way to Trongsa.

The Drukpa Lineage was divided from that time on into the Northern Drukpa, or Chang Druk ( Dzongkha: བ ྱ ང ་ འབ ྲུ ག ་; Wylie: Byang -' Brug ) branch in Tibet headed by the Gyalwang Drukpa and the Southern Drukpa, or Lho Druk ( Dzongkha: ལ ྷོ་ འབ ྲུ ག ་; Wylie: Lho -' Brug ), based in Bhutan and headed by the Shabdrung incarnations.

The Drukpa Lineage has more than a thousand monasteries in Tibet, Bhutan, Ladakh and other parts of Himalayas and the legacy of guiding countless beings on the path of Dharma and ultimate enlightenment for more than 800 years.

The first temple was built in 1543 by the Drukpa Kagyu lama, Ngagi Wangchuk, who was the great-grandfather of Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyel, the person who unified Bhutan.

Drukpa or Bhutanese language is the national and official language of Bhutan.

The Drukpa Kagyu, the Lhapa Kagyu and the Nenyingpa had all controlled parts of western Bhutan since the 12th century.

Later he would conquer and unify all of Bhutan, but would allow the ancient Nyingma sect to continue in central and eastern Bhutan ( today the Nyingma comprise approximately 30 % of Bhutan's monks even though they are privately funded while the Southern Drukpa Kagyu is supported as the established state religion of Bhutan ).

One of them, Tagna or " Tiger's Nose " monastery established by Choje Mukzinpa, became the main seat of the Southern Drukpa Kagyu tradition in Ladakh.

The traditional name of the country since the seventeenth century has been Drukyul — country of the Drukpa, the Dragon people, or the Land of the Thunder Dragon, a reference to the country's dominant Buddhist sect.

It is a religious folk dance form of Drukpa Buddhism, which was established in 1670.

Regarding the origin of the term ' Lepcha ' writes Sailen Debnath " The word ' Lepcha ', most probably a geo-racial term, is phonetically an elongated and much evolved form of the Bhutanese Dzongkha word ( even might be of Chhokey origin ) “ La – chhu ” which the Drukpa Bhutanese might have used to geographically identify the early people of Sikkim and Kalimpong in the bygone ages of their long connection with Tibet via the Chumbey Valley since the time of Sabdrung Nagawang Namgyal, the founding father of Drug-Yul.

Approximately two-thirds to three-quarters of the population practice Drukpa Kagyupa or Ningmapa Buddhism, both of which are disciplines of Mahayana Buddhism.

There are a further eight minor sub-sects, all of which trace their root to Pagtru Kagyu and the most notable of which are the Drikung Kagyu and the Drukpa Kagyu.

Although the Lhapa subsect had been successfully challenged in the twelfth century by another Kargyupa subsect — the Drukpa — led by Tibetan monk Phajo Drugom Shigpo, it continued to proselytize until the seventeenth century.

Subsequent to introduction of the Drukpa Kargyu lineage by Lama Phajo and Zhabdrung acquiring the Dzong in 1641, the Dzong was renamed as Tashichhoe Dzong.

Inside the courtyard is a gallery, illustrating the leaders of the Drukpa Kagyupa lineage.

The monastery, which is now a major teaching and retreat centre of the Southern Drukpa Kagyu order, is located at the northern end of Thimphu Valley, about from the capital.

The influence of Drukpa Buddhism and Buddhist music on Bhutanese culture is important.

Many folk songs and chanting styles are derived from Drukpa music.

Bhutanese musicians include: Jigme Drukpa, who is also a leading Bhutanese musicologist.

* The Drukpa Kagyu " Six Spheres of Equal Taste " tradition-Tsangpa Gyare founded this tradition which encompasses a range of practices, including the Six Yogas of Naropa.

The flag is based upon the tradition of the Drukpa Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and features Druk, the Thunder Dragon of Bhutanese mythology.

This tradition dates to 1189 when Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje, founder of the Drukpa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, was in Phoankar ( Tibet ) where he reportedly witnessed the Namgyiphu valley glowing with rainbow and light.

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Though the spread of this type of decoration in the Aegean has not yet been precisely determined, it seems to appear first in the Cyclades, which were among the leading exporters of pottery throughout the century.

The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

Johnston had less than 40, 000 men spread throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri.

The celebration was soon adopted in several dioceses in France, and spread throughout the Western Church.

The name's popularity was spread throughout the Greek world by the military conquests of King Alexander III, commonly known as " Alexander the Great ".

Selection by lottery was the standard means as it was regarded as the more democratic: elections would favour those who were rich, noble, eloquent and well-known, while allotment spread the work of administration throughout the whole citizen body, engaging them in the crucial democratic experience of, to use Aristotle's words, " ruling and being ruled in turn " ( Politics 1317b28 – 30 ).

From there, the Acadians spread throughout the Valley, in various communities, building dykes to claim the tidal lands along the Annapolis and Cornwallis Rivers.

His reputation had spread throughout Europe and he was on friendly terms and in communication with most of the major artists including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and — mainly through Lorenzo di Credi — Leonardo da Vinci.

Shortly after Napoleon became First Consul and then emperor, using the office to spread the revolution throughout Europe.

News of the prince's arrival spread like wildfire throughout the peninsula.

As the genre spread throughout the African continent many bands took up the style.

A significant contribution to the northward spread of Bluetongue disease has been the ability of Culicoides obsoletus and C. pulicaris to acquire and transmit the disease, both of which are spread widely throughout Europe.

As Bigfoot has become better known and a phenomenon in popular culture, sightings have spread throughout North America.

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Evaluating Collins ' approach, he considers " the wide geographical spread from which the material comes and the implicit assumption that linguistic developments would have occurred uniformly throughout this area " a weakness and concludes, " The character of the Hebrew and Aramaic could support a date in the fifth or fourth century for the extant written form of the book, but does not demand a second-century date.

Sustained British cannon fire spread the flames throughout the ship's stern, and prevented all efforts to extinguish it.

Primarily carried by rodents ( most notably rats ) and spread to humans via fleas, the disease is notorious throughout history, due to the unrivaled scale of death and devastation it brought.

But readings of historical sources suggest around one thousand Bandanese likely survived in the islands, and were spread throughout the nutmeg groves as forced labourers.

A hydrocolloid has colloid particles spread throughout water, and depending on the quantity of water available that can take place in different states, e. g., gel or sol ( liquid ).

As time progressed, English country dances were spread and reinterpreted throughout the Western world, and eventually the French form of the name came to be associated with the American folk dances, especially in New England ( this Gallicized name change may have followed a contemporary misbelief that the form was originally French ).

The term capitalism gradually spread throughout the Western world in the 19th and 20th centuries largely through the writings of Karl Marx.

: " With its love of luxury and passion for colour, the art of this age delighted in the production of masterpieces that spread the fame of Byzantium throughout the whole of the Christian world.

Over the succeeding centuries, Capetians spread throughout Europe, ruling every form of provincial unit from kingdoms to manors.