# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tangtong-gyalpo
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:40:32.702Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tangtong-gyalpo"
name: "tangtong gyalpo"
slug: "tangtong-gyalpo"
description: "Thangtong Gyalpo, is also known as Chakzampa, the \"Iron Bridge Maker\", Tsöndrü Zangpo \"Excellent Persistence\", and the King of the Empty Plain. He was also known by a variation of this name, Madman of the Empty Valley. He was a great Buddhist adept, a Chöd master, yogi, physician, blacksmith, architect, and a pioneering civil engineer. He is considered a mind emanation of Padmasambhava and a reincarnation of Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen. He founded the Iron Chain lineage of the Shangpa Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, and he recognized the first Samding Dorje Phagmo, Chökyi Drönma (1422–1455), the female incarnation lineage of Vajravārāhī."
tagline: "Tibetan lama"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TangtonGyalpo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1361"
deathDate: "1485"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.35
  momentum:             3.999999999999999
  historical:           9.440824000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "汤东杰布"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Тангтонг Гялпо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ཐང་སྟོང་རྒྱལ་པོ།"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ཐང་སྟོང་རྒྱལ་པོ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thang_Tong_Gyalpo"
    title: "Thang Tong Gyalpo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thang_Tong_Gyalpo"
    title: "Thang Tong Gyalpo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thangtong_Gyalpo"
    title: "Thangtong Gyalpo"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Тангтонг Гьялпо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Тангтонг Г'ялпо"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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