Jetsun Pema

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Jetsun Pema


Born
in Tibet
July 07, 1940

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Jetsun Pema (རྗེ་བཙུན་པདྨ་) was born in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, on July 7, 1940. She is the living sister of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

She came to India in 1950 and studied first at St. Joseph's Convent in Kalimpong and later at Loreto Convent in Darjeeling from where she completed her Senior Cambridge in 1960. In 1961, she went to Switzerland and then to England to do further studies. She returned to India in April 1964. In June 1964, she was directed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to take over the responsibility of running the Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala. Since then, she has been the moving force and mother of thousands of destitute and orphaned Tibetan children. The children call her "Ama La" (Respected Mother).
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