The Chogyal was the absolute monarch of Sikkim from 1642 to 1973, and the constitutional monarch from 1973 to 1975, when the monarchy was abolished and the Sikkimese people voted in a referendum to make Sikkim the 22nd state of India.

曲迦仁波切 (Chogyal Rinpoche )于 1985 年出生在尼泊尔。 五岁时,他如愿进 入十六世大法宝王噶玛巴创建的隆德寺 (RumtekMonastery)开始了僧侣生涯。 在 往后的十年里,仁波切在隆德寺和如尔满寺 (Zurmang)如饥似渴地学习佛教知识, 认真专注地研习各种禅修方法,他不仅记诵数百本藏传佛教的经典法册,还熟悉 和掌握了各种仪式的礼仪礼规,包括沙坛城的准备、寺庙不同法器的弹奏和神圣 的金刚舞仪式的演习。 2000 年,仁波切开始到宗萨佛学院 (Dzongsar BuddhistInstitute)和 …

Phuntsog Namgyal (Sikkimese: ཕུན་ཚོག་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་; Wylie: phun tshog rnam rgyal) (1604–1670) was the first Chogyal (monarch) of Sikkim, [1] now an Indian state. He consecrated in 1642 at the age of 38. Phuntsog was a fifth generation descendant of Khye Bumsa, a 13th-century prince from the Mi-nyak House in Kham in Eastern Tibet.

A fifth-generation descendant of Khye Bumsa, Phuntsog Namgyal, became the founder of Sikkim's monarchy in 1642, when he was consecrated as the first Chogyal, or priest-king, of Sikkim by the three venerated lamas at Yuksom.

Chogyal Rinpoche’s destiny was defined at his birth. Born in 1983 under the name Karma Punthsok Lama in a Buddhist family, the Rinpoche showed signs of possessing divine wisdom as a toddler — even before gaining the ability to speak. In pursuit of realizing the ultimate intention of his life, he entered monastic life at the age of five.

The Chogyal (" Dharma Kings", Tibetan: ཆོས་རྒྱལ, Wylie: chos rgyal) were the monarchs of the former Kingdom of Sikkim, which belonged to the Namgyal dynasty, Tibetan: རྣམ་རྒྱལ་རྒྱལ་རབས།, Wylie: Rnam Rgyal Rgyal Rabs.

On the Nineteenth day of February, Year Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-two, Tibetan calendar Chya-Jya and Chu-Khy, the people of Sikkim have decided to offer traditional scarf to the thirteenth consecrated Chogyal of Sikkim, Tobgyal Wangchuk Tenzing Namgyal, at the Tsuk-la-khang of Gangtok at 3.00 p.m.

Before Chogyal Rinpoche returned to Nepal in mid 2013, he completed an intensive course in Chinese at the University in Beijing. Back in Kathmandu, he took full responsibility for the Sertshang Orphanage, which his father and he had founded earlier …

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The Chogyal, or divine ruler, was the absolute potentate of Sikkim from 1642 to 1975, when monarchy was abrogated and its people voted in a referendum to make Sikkim India's 22nd state. However, Chogyal meaning "Dharma Raja" or "Religious King" is a title which was also conferred upon a special class of temporal and spiritual rulers.