Tsering Dolma (1919 - 21 November 1964) was the founder of the non-profit refugee organisation Tibetan Children's Villages and was the older sister of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzing Gyatso.
Biography
Tsering Dolma was the eldest daughter of a farming and horse trading family living in the hamlet of Taktser. She was the eldest sister of the 14th Dalai Lama, and acted as a midwife to her mother during his birth in 1935 at the age of 16.[1]
She married Taklha Puntsok Tashi, a Tibetan politician in 1937 and they moved to Lhasa in 1940.[2][3] She was part of the 1950 Tibetan delegation to India who met with Jawaharlal Nehru, and she also formed part of a 1954 delegation to Beijing to meet with Mao Zedong and the National People's Congress.[4][3]
She fled Tibet to India in response to the 1959 Tibetan uprising alongside her brother and other prominent Tibetans with the support of the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Center.[5][3]
In exile she established Tibetan Children's Villages who assisted in the building and running of refugee camps for children in Dharamshala.[6] There, she also worked with international volunteers from Service Civil International.[7]
Tsering Dolma died in England in 1964.[8]
References
- ^ Stewart, Whitney, 1959- (2000). The 14th Dalai Lama. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co. ISBN 0-8225-9691-1. OCLC 44627126.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "PHUNTSOK TASHI TAKLA". TIBETAN WHO'S WHO. 15 April 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
- ^ a b c Goodman, Michael Harris. (1993). Le dernier Dalaï-Lama? : biographie et témoignages. Carteron, Sylvie,, Bérenger, Catherine. Vernègues (France): Éditions Claire Lumière. ISBN 2-905998-26-1. OCLC 30099870.
- ^ Shakabpa, W. D. (Wangchuk Deden), 1908-1989. (2010). One hundred thousand moons : an advanced political history of Tibet. Maher, Derek F. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-474-3076-6. OCLC 717020192.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Conboy, Kenneth J. (2002). The CIA's secret war in Tibet. Morrison, James, -2000. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-1159-2. OCLC 47930660.
- ^ Craig, Mary, 1928- (1998). Kundun : une biographie du Dalaï-Lama et de sa famille. Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-, Vidonne, François. [S.l.]: Presses du Châtelet. ISBN 2-911217-33-0. OCLC 40821251.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Elizabeth Crook - Archives of Service Civil International | Civil Service International". www.service-civil-international.org. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ "Dr. Florence Haslam tells of hospital work in India". The StarPhoenix. 29 October 1965. p. 11. Retrieved 12 April 2023.