Yeshe Ngodub

Choley Yeshe Ngodub or simply Yeshe Ngodub (Dzongkha: ཡེ་ཤེས་དངོས་གྲུབ།) (1851–1917) was the 54th and the last Druk Desi (secular ruler of Bhutan) who reigned from 1903 to 1905.^[1] He was also appointed the Je Khenpo (religious head of Bhutan) from 1915 until his death in 1917.^[2] He was only the one to hold both the offices of the dual system of government of Bhutan.

Choley Yeshe Ngodub
ཡེ་ཤེས་དངོས་གྲུབ
Yeshe Ngodub in 1905
54th Druk Desi
In office 1903–1905
Preceded by	Sangay Dorji
Succeeded by	position abolished; monarchy established from 1907" (Ugyen Wangchuk as King of Bhutan)
Je Khenpo
In office 1915–1917
Personal details
Born	1851 Tang Valley, Bumthang District
Died	1917 (aged 65–66)

Early life

Ngodub was born in 1851 in the Tang Valley of Bumthang in central Bhutan. While still a child, he was identified as the fifth speech reincarnation of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal by the Central Monastic Body of Bhutan and ultimately enthroned at Sang Chokhor in Paro, a seat of his incarnation line.^[2]