Zhabdrung Rinpoche | Handmade | Gold Gilded

Description

Zhabdrung Rinpoche previously known as Ngawang Namgyal, later granted the honorific "Zhabdrung  Rinpoche", and also known colloquially as The Bearded Lama, was a Tibetan Buddhist Lama and the unifier of Bhutan as a nation-state. In addition to unifying the various warring fiefdoms for the first time in the 1630s, he also sought to create a distinct Bhutanese cultural identity separate from the Tibetan culture from which it was derived.

Zhabdrung Rinpoche was born at Ralung Monastery in Tibet. In his youth, Ngawang Namgyal was enthroned as the eighteenth Drukpa or throne-holder and "hereditary prince" of the traditional Drukpa seat and estate of Ralung, and recognized there as the immediate reincarnation of the fourth Drukchen.

Feature: Copper body, Partly Gold Gilded, Face Painted, Handmade, Handcarved