Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji

This name uses Bhutanese naming customs. Bhutanese people have two given names, neither of which is a surname or family name unless they are descended from royal or noble lineages.

Rani Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji (Dzongkha: མ་ཡུམ་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་དབང་མོ་རྡོ་རྗེ, Wylie: ma-yum chos-dbyings dbang-mo rdo-rje) was the mother of Queen Grandmother Ashi Kesang Choden of Bhutan.^[1] She was Choying Wangmo Dorji by her marriage.^{[citation needed]} She is best known for designing the Flag of Bhutan. She died in 1994.^[2]

Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji
Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji and the king Jigme Singye Wangchuck (her grandson) in 1979
Born	1897 Gangtok, Kingdom of Sikkim
Died	March 26, 1994 (aged 97) Bhutan House, Kalimpong, India
Spouse(s)	Gonzim Sonam Topgay Dorji (m. 1918–1953; his death)
Children	5
Parent(s)	Chogyal Thutob Namgyal (father) Yeshay Dolma (mother)

Work

Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji designed the first Bhutan flag with the senior members of the monastic clergy of the Zhung Dratshang(Central Monastic Body): Bhutan had been invited to attend the first Asian conference in New Delhi on March 23, 1947, and a flag representing Bhutan was necessitated for the occasion. Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji and Bhutan's late prime minister, Lyonchen Jigme Palden Dorji (her son), represented Bhutan at the conference.^[3]

She was deeply religious and would donate large amounts of money and offered many personal sacred reliquaries to build temples and monasteries in Bhutan. She was involved with the translation of the History of Sikkim by Gyalmo Yeshay Dolma(her mother) as well as several other works with scholars such as Gendun Chophel, Barmoik Athing and so on. ^[4]

She was formerly the Jetsunma of Phensang Monastery in Sikkim. Her modern education was privately tutored, and her wedding took place at Bhutan House, Kalimpong, on 5 April 1918.^{[citation needed]}

Patronages

• President of the Sikkim Education Board.
• Vice-President of Sikkim Research Institute of Tibetology General Council [SRIT] (1964–1965).

Ancestry

Ancestors of Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji
16. Phuntsog Namgyal, 5th Maharaja of Sikkim 8. Tenzing Namgyal, 6th Maharaja of Sikkim 17. a daughter of Deba Shamsher Khiti Phukpa 4. Tsugphud Namgyal, 7th Maharaja of Sikkim 18. Chandzod Karwang 9. Anyo Karwang 2. Sir Thutob Namgyal, 9th Maharaja of Sikkim 5. Maharani Menchi 1. Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji 6. Shiafe Uthok, of the Lhading House of Lhasa 3. Yeshay Dolma