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Tsering Dolma
Tibetan politician (1919–1964) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tsering Dolma (Tibetan: ཚེ་རིང་སྒྲོལ་མ, 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.
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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 when she was 16 years old.[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]
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