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Palden thondup Namgyal was born on 23 May 1923 at the Royal Palace, Park Ridge, Gangtok. [1] At six, he became a student at St. Joseph's Convent in Kalimpong, [2] but had to terminate his studies due to attacks of malaria. [3] [4] From age eight to eleven he studied under his uncle, Rimpoche Lhatsun, in order to be ordained a Buddhist monk; he ...
Jan 30, 1982 · Palden Thondup Namgyal, who was born May 22, 1923, came from a royal house of Tibetan origin in Kham Province. At birth, he was proclaimed a living saint of the Buddhist faith and recognized as ...
Oct 19, 2013 · With the cremation of Palden Thondup Namgyal, the former Chogyal of Sikkim, in Gangtok, a 100-year-old dynasty finally came to an end. Though deprived of his throne since 1975, when Sikkim became a state of the Indian Union, the pomp and pageantry that accompanied the cremation ceremony was certainly befitting royalty.
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Oct 19, 2013 · The last Chogyal, Palden Thondup, had a speech impediment. In fact, there is a startling similarity in the father and son situation. P.T. Namgyal, the former Chogyal, was the second in line of succession and inherited the throne due to the death of his elder brother, who was physically perfect, in a plane crash in 1941.
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May 16, 2023 · Then Chogyal Tashi Namgyal died in 1963, and Maharaj Kumar Thondup succeeded him, planning to leverage this period of changes to seek an independent status for Sikkim. For new Indian PM Indira Gandhi, her position weakened after the 1967 general elections that saw her return to power with a reduced majority in the Lok Sabha.
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Apr 11, 2015 · Palden Thondup Namgyal who is lying in a coma after taking an overdose of barbiturates would not have become a public personality had not his elder brother died in an aircrash. Palden Thondup, just turned 53, ascended the gaddi in 1963 after the death of his father.
The Centennial birth anniversary of Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal, the last king of Sikkim, commenced from Sunday at Gangtok. During the programme, Prince P...
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