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emerging at night from a cliff in the middle of a forest. Later that day, when he went to the site, he saw the bagha བྷ་ག of dorji phamo and the soul lake བླ་མཚོ། of pelden Lhamo དཔལ་ལྡན་ལྷ་མོ། as well as the footprints of her riding horse འཆིབ་རྟ along the waist of the cliff. Yongzin
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Sherabling. During that time the people of Trongsa offered plenty of druna འབྲུ་སྣ། as offering. In an enchanting way, Kuenkhen Rinpoche said, "since you all offered me plenty of grain, the place will be called 'Mang-Deg'" མང་སྡེག- mang meaning plenty and deg meaning offered. Thus the name of the place was derived from Kuenkhen Rinpoche's statement, and was known as Mang-deg, which later changed to mag-dey as mentioned before, with the change of time.
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Trongsa is also known as Mang-deg which later became Mang-dey, with a change in the spelling and pronunciation of the second word. The history behind who, why and when the name was given runs back to the time when
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As per the prophecy ལུང་བསྟན། of lha dang lama, In 1543 the tutor of kuenkhen Pema karpo ཀུན་མཁྱེན་པདྨ་དཀར་པོ། visited yoelingའོད་གླིང་། village to the north བྱང་ཕྱོགས། of current day
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