Tsering Dolma

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]

Tsering Dolma died in England in 1964.^[8]