Drukpa Definition

noun

A person from Bhutan or of Bhutanese descent.

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The Drukpa Kagyu (also Drukpa Kargyu) school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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adjective

Of, from, or pertaining to Bhutan or the Bhutanese people.

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Sometimes (more narrowly) pertaining to the main ethnic group within Bhutan.

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Pertaining to the Drukpa Kagyu (Drukpa Kargyu) or Drukpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Origin of Drukpa

From Dzongkha and Tibetan འབྲུག་ཡུལ ('brug yul, “country of Bhutan”); འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ ('brug rgyal khab, “Kingdom of Bhutan”); from Dzongkha འབྲུག ('brug, “Bhutan”); འབྲུག་པ ('brug pa, “Bhutanese”).

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