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Jetsun Pema (Tibetan: རྗེ་བཙུན་པདྨ་; Wylie: rje btsun padma; Chinese: 吉尊白瑪, born 7 July 1940) is the sister of the 14th Dalai Lama. For 42 years she was the President of the Tibetan Children's Villages (TCV) school system for Tibetan refugee students.
Jetsun Pema (Dzongkha: རྗེ་བཙུན་པདྨ་; Wylie: rje btsun padma, born on 4 June 1990) is the Druk Gyaltsuen (Dzongkha: Dragon Queen) of Bhutan, as the wife of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. She is currently the youngest queen consort in the world.
Jetsun Pema is the sister of the 14th Dalai Lama and the founder of the Tibetan Children's Villages. She was born in Lhasa in 1940 and received the UNESCO medal in 1999 for her service to Tibetan children.
Mar 12, 2018 · Born on July 7, 1940, in Lhasa, Ama Jetsun Pema was sent for her formal education to India in 1949, the year Mao Tse-Tung grabbed power in China. She went to the prestigious St Joseph’s Convent in Kalimpong, followed by a stint at Loreto Convent in Darjeeling, where she finished school.
Jetsun Pema was born in Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital, in the capital city, Thimphu, Bhutan, on 4th June 1990. She is the second eldest child amongst her five siblings. She has two brothers, Thinlay Norbu and Jigme Namgyel, and two sisters, Serchen Doma and Yeatso Lhamo.
Jetsun Pema was born in 1940 in Tibet. At that time her big brother, Tenzin Gyatso, had already been named the Dalai Lama , Tibet’s highest spiritual leader. When she was 9, she was sent to a boarding school in India.
Jan 23, 1998 · Jetsun Pema, sister of the Dalai Lama. She's written an autobiography about Tibet and her work there,"Tibet: My Story" (Element). In it she recounts life in Tibet before the Chinese occupation, exile from Tibet, and her work as the president of the Tibetan Children's Village, which encompasses over 11,000 Tibetan refugees in India.
