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|name         = Chakdor Namgyal
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|reign        = 1700 – 1717
|succession   = [[Chogyal of Sikkim]]
|predecessor  = [[Tensung Namgyal]]
|successor    = [[Gyurmed Namgyal]]
|issue        = [[Gyurmed Namgyal]]
|house        = [[Chogyal|Namgyal dynasty]]
|father       = [[Tensung Namgyal]]
|mother       = Debasam-serpa
|birth_date   = 1686
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|death_date   = 1717
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|religion     = [[Buddhism]]
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'''Chakdor Namgyal''' ([[Sikkimese language|Sikkimese]]: {{bo-textonly|ཕྱག་དོར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་}}; [[Wylie transliteration|Wylie]]: ''{{transl|si|phyag dor rnam rgyal}}'') was the third [[Chogyal]] (king) of [[Sikkim]]. He succeeded [[Tensung Namgyal]] in 1700 and was succeeded himself by [[Gyurmed Namgyal]] in 1717.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=L7gIVNzkN2YC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=Chakdor+Namgyal&source=bl&ots=kLHBOHhNut&sig=MkCzf_Ub2l4I6mMln7vU0MXwiJ0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFwQ6AEwC2oVChMI5evkiPGKxwIVx7gUCh2h1AAG#v=onepage&q=Chakdor%20Namgyal&f=false Sikkim: Past and Present edited by H. G. Joshi]</ref>

His half-sister Pende Ongmu tried to dethrone Chakdor, who fled to Lhasa, but was reinstated as king with the help of [[Tibetans]].

== References ==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061030023958/http://www.himalmag.com/2006/august/special_report_1.htm History of Sikkim]

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