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Ngawang Namgyal
Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal (1594-1651) was the founder of Bhutan. In addition to unifying the country for the first time in the 1630s, he also sought to create a distinctly Bhutanese cultural identity, separate from the Tibetan culture from which it was derived.
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