# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ngawang-kunga
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:51:07.147Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ngawang-kunga"
name: "Ngawang Kunga"
slug: "ngawang-kunga"
description: "Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga served as the 41st Sakya Trizin, the throne holder of the Sakya Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, from his appointment in 1952 until his retirement in 2017. His religious name is Ngawang Kunga Tegchen Palbar Trinley Samphel Wangyi Gyalpo. After passing the throne of the Sakya lineage to his elder son Ratna Vajra Rinpoche who became the 42nd Sakya Trizin on 9 March 2017, he is now known as Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche."
tagline: "Tibetan monk living in India"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sakya_Trizin_41.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1945-09-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.78
  momentum:             3.661464585834334
  historical:           6.374301333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ཁྲི་ཆེན་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་ངག་དབང་ཀུན་དགའ་ཐེག་ཆེན་དཔལ་འབར་འཕྲིན་ལས་བསམ་འཕེལ་དབང་གི་རྒྱལ་པོ།"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngawang_K%C3%BCnga_Thegchen_Pelbar"
    title: "Ngawang Künga Thegchen Pelbar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakya_Trizin_Ngawang_Kunga"
    title: "Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngawang_Kunga"
    title: "Ngawang Kunga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngawang_Kunga_Tegchen_Palbar"
    title: "Ngawang Kunga Tegchen Palbar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngawang_K%C3%BCnga_Thegchen_P%C3%A4lbar"
    title: "Ngawang Künga Thegchen Pälbar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump