Diki Tsering
Diki Tsering | |
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| Born | c. 1901 |
| Died | 12 January 1981 (aged 79–80) |
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| Tibetan name | |
| Tibetan | བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཚེ་རིང་ |
| Wylie | Bde-skyid Tshe-ring |
| Tibetan Pinyin | Têci Cering |
| Chinese name | |
| Chinese | 德吉才仁 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Déjí Cáirén |
Diki Tsering (བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཚེ་རིང་; c. 1901 – 12 January 1981)[1] was a 20th-century Tibetan woman, known as the mother of three reincarnated Rinpoches/Lamas: Lhamo Thondup, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th reincarnated Dalai Lama; Thubten Jigme Norbu, the 6th reincarnated Taktser Rinpoche; and Tendzin Choegyal, the 16th reincarnated Ngari Rinpoche. In article The Discourse of Lama, the Qianlong Emperor stated the invention of Golden Urn was to eliminate families with multiple reincarnated Rinpoches/Lamas.
In Diki's biography Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's Story, she wrote that after the alleged murder of the Reting Rinpoche in 1947, that word started to spread that Lhamo Thondup was not the real Dalai Lama, since the Golden Urn was not used in the selection process. To put this rumor to rest for the regent Taktra and the Kashag, it was decided to use a lot-drawing process by placing both names in a vessel before the image of Je Rinpoche to confirm the real 14th Dalai Lama. This was done three times. The name Lhamo Thondup "leaped out three times, and the regent Taktra and the Kashag had nothing more to say for themselves."[2]
Tibet expert, professor Shen Kaiyun (沈开运) of Tibet University, noted that Diki Tsering's husband Choekyong Tsering (Chinese: 祁却才让) died in 1947, the same year as the untimely death of the Reting Rinpoche, Jamphel Yeshe Gyaltsen; both were allegedly poisoned.[3][4]
References
- ^ Marcello, Patricia Cronin (2003). The Dalai Lama: A Biography. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 2, 131. ISBN 978-0313361746.
- ^ Tsering, Diki (2001). Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's Story. Penguin Publishing. pp. 135–136. ISBN 978-1-101-19943-5.
- ^ "达赖性格揭秘：其父不满分裂疑被毒死" [The Dalai Lama's personality revealed: His father, dissatisfied with separatism, was suspected of being poisoned.]. Phoenix Television (in Chinese). 12 May 2008.
- ^ Sun, Lizhou (16 September 2008). "达赖的大哥土登诺布去世" [The Dalai Lama's big brother Tudenob has died]. China Youth On Line (in Chinese).