Majesty the Queen Mother Ashi Tshering Yangdon Wangchuck (born 21 June 1959) founded Bhutan Nun’s Foundation in 2009. The foundation was established to improve the well-being and education of nuns in Bhutan. Her Majesty the Gyalyum is the Patron of Royal Bhutan Flower Exhibition and the Royal Society for the Protection and Care of Animals.
Her father, Yab Dasho Ugyen Dorji (1925–2019), was the Founder and Proprietor of Ugyen Academy (03/04/2002). Her mother is Yum Thuiji Zam (b. 1932). Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck is the first wife of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth King of Bhutan. She was educated at St. Helen's School , Kurseong , India . She is the mother of Princess Ashi Sonam Dechen Wangchuck and Prince Dasho Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck . Activities The Queen Mother has sponsored and edited a number of books on poetry and essays on national issues. She is the author of “Of Rainbows and Clouds” a story of Dasho Yab Ugyen Dorji (the Queen’s Father), which is not only a gripping family saga, but an illuminating window on Bhutanese culture, society and history. Her second book “Treasures of the Thunder Dragon: A Portrait of Bhutan” is a blend of personal memoir, history, folklore and travelog...
Ngawang Namgyal (later granted the honorific Zhabdrung Rinpoche , approximately "at whose feet one submits") ( Tibetan : ཞབས་དྲུང་ངག་དབང་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ , Wylie : zhabs drung ngag dbang rnam rgyal ; alternate spellings include Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel ; 1594–1651) and known colloquially as The Bearded Lama, was a Tibetan Buddhist lama and the unifier of Bhutan as a nation-state. In addition to unifying the various warring fiefdoms for the first time in the 1630s, he also sought to create a distinct Bhutanese cultural identity separate from the Tibetan culture from which it was derived. Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal was born at Ralung ( Wylie : rwa lung ) Monastery, Tibet as the son of the Drukpa lineage-holder Mipham Tenpa'i Nyima ( Wylie : ' brug pa mi pham bstan pa'i nyi ma , 1567–1619), and Sönam Pelgyi Butri ( Wylie : bsod nams dpal gyi bu kh...
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