Denkhok (Denma), Derge

Denkhok, in the Denma area of the Derge region of Kham (eastern Tibet, now near the Sichuan border), was the birthplace, in 1910, of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of the most influential Nyingma masters of the twentieth century, who later did much to preserve Tibetan Buddhism in exile.