Ngawang Namgyal
Ngawang Namgyal, known colloquially as The Bearded Lama, was a Tibetan Buddhist Drukpa Kagyu school Rinpoche, and the unifier of Bhutan as a nation-state. He was later granted the honorific title Zhabdrung Rinpoche, approximately "at whose feet... Wikipedia
Born: 1594, Lhasa, China
Died: 1651 (age 57 years), Punakha, Bhutan
Parents: Drukpa Yab Chen Tenpé Nyima
Children: Druk Gyalsé Jampal Dorjé