21 Facts About Gyalwang Drukpa

Gyalwang Drukpa is the honorific title of the head of the Drukpa Lineage, one of the independent Sarma schools of Vajrayana Buddhism.

Gyalwang Drukpa was born at Lake Rewalsar, India in 1963.

The Gyalwang Drukpa Lineage spread throughout Nepal, Tibet, Ladakh, North India and Bhutan.

Gyalwang Drukpa is an active environmentalist, educator and the spiritual head of the Drukpa Lineage, one of the main Buddhist schools of the Himalayas founded by the great Indian saint Naropa with a thousand-year legacy in India.

Gyalwang Drukpa applies ancient Buddhist philosophy to resolve today's problems and has millions of followers worldwide.

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One of the Gyalwang Drukpa's main focuses is on environmental preservation and education, which puts into action the core Buddhist principle that all beings are interconnected and interdependent.

Gyalwang Drukpa's mission is to promote universal harmony and inner peace by integrating the spiritual tenets of love and appreciation into daily life.

Gyalwang Drukpa's work includes encouraging gender equality, establishing educational institutions, medical clinics and meditation centres and rebuilding heritage sites in the Himalayas.

Gyalwang Drukpa is the founder and spiritual director of the award-winning Druk White Lotus School in Ladakh, India, which provides its students with a modern education while preserving their local culture.

Gyalwang Drukpa teaches that everyone can have a dramatic positive impact on the community around them, and teaches that we should put compassion into action.

In recognition of his activism, the Gyalwang Drukpa received the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Honour in September 2010 and three months later in December 2010, he received Green Hero Award, presented by the President of India.

The Gyalwang Drukpa is working to change this and has established the Druk Gawa Khilwa Nunnery – a modern and green abbey outside Kathmandu, Nepal with a satellite abbey in Ladakh, India.

Gyalwang Drukpa attends the annual United Nations week in New York, where he speaks at different UN Women's forums meeting with like-minded women leaders such as Cherie Blair, Geena Davis and Her Royal Highness Princess Basmah bint Saud, attends high-level meetings concerning world conflicts, and participates at various discussions on climate change.

Gyalwang Drukpa often meets with several United Nations branches, including the World Health Organization, to discuss, among other things, potential cooperation in improving health worldwide.

In September 2013, during the UN week, the Gyalwang Drukpa was named 'The Guardian of the Himalayas' by Waterkeeper Alliance, founded in 1999 by environmental lawyer Robert F Kennedy Jr.

In 2010, the Gyalwang Drukpa launched an initiative to plant one million trees in Ladakh, as part of the 'one million trees' campaign initiated by Wangari Maathai, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.

The Gyalwang Drukpa himself visited, on foot, 50 remote villages affected by the flash flood.

On 10 September 2014, the Gyalwang Drukpa issued an official statement accusing Beijing of fanning intra-sect rivalries by using the Chinese-led subset-under-occupation of the Karma Kagyu to forcibly take over Drukpa monasteries in the holy Mount Kailash area of Tibet, with Drukpa monks and yogis being forced out of their monasteries, and photographs of Drukpa masters replaced with photographs of the Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje.

The Gyalwang Drukpa stated, “They are using name, but I don't think he is responsible.

Gyalwang Drukpa has a broad outlook, and there is no conversion plan.

Gyalwang Drukpa believes in harmony and dialogue between all sects, and we all belong to the broad Buddhist tradition.