Diki Tsering (; – 12 January 1981) was the mother of three reincarnated Rinpoches/Lamas: Lhamo Thondup, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th reincarnated Dalai Lama;

Thubten Jigme Norbu Thubten Jigme Norbu () (August 16, 1922 – September 5, 2008), recognised as the Taktser Rinpoche, was a Tibetan lama, writer, civil rights activist and professor of Tibetan studies and was the eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyats ...

, the 6th reincarnated

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; and Tendzin Choegyal, the 16th reincarnated Ngari Rinpoche. In article

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condemned families with multiple reincarnated Rinpoches/Lamas. In Diki's biography ''Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's Story'', after the murder of Reting Rinpoche in 1947 she mentioned that "word started to spread that His Holiness hamo Dhondupwas not the real

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, that a mistake had been made." To put this rumor to rest for the regent

Taktra Ngawang Sungrab Thutob ( bo, སྟག་བྲག་ནག་དབང་གསུང་རབ།; ) (1874–1952) was the third Taktra Rinpoche, (Wylie transliteration: ''sTag-brag'', also Takdrak, Tagdrag, etc.) and regent of Tibet. As regent, ...

and the

Kashag The Kashag (; ), was the governing council of Tibet during the rule of the Qing dynasty and post-Qing period until the 1950s. It was created in 1721, and set by Qianlong Emperor in 1751 for the Ganden Phodrang in the 13-Article Ordinance for ...

, 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. My son's name leaped out three times, and the regent Taktra and the Kashag had nothing more to say for themselves." Tibet expert, professor Shen Kaiyun (沈开运) of

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clarified that Diki Tsering's husband Choekyong Tsering (Chinese:祁却才让) died in 1947, shortly after,

Reting Rinpoche Reting Rinpoche () was a title held by abbots of Reting Monastery, a Buddhist monastery in central Tibet. History of the lineage Historically, the Reting Rinpoche has occasionally acted as the selector of the new Dalai Lama incarnation. It is f ...

also died in 1947, both were poisoned by separatists.

References

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