Hiranyamayee Lama was a

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...

ese politician. In 1979 she became the first woman elected to the Tshogdu.

Biography

Lama was K.D. Pradhan's daughter. She was educated in

Kalimpong Kalimpong (Hindi: कलिम्पोंग) is a town and the headquarters of an eponymous district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located at an average elevation of . The town is the headquarters of the Kalimpong district. The re ...

in India and married Dasho Durgadas Lama, who became a royal advisory councillor and was a prominent Christian activist. In June 1979 Lama was elected to the National Assembly from the Chengmari district as a People's Representative, becoming the first woman to sit in the

Parliament of Bhutan The Parliament of Bhutan ( dz, རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་ཁང་ ''gyelyong tshokhang'') consists of the King of Bhutan together with a bicameral parliament.Constitution: Art. 1, § 3; Art. 10 This bicameral parliament is ...

.First woman councilor, Leki Pemo passes away
''Kuensel'', 25 March 2019

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lama, Hiranyamayee Bhutanese women in politics Members of the Tshogdu Bhutanese people of Nepalese descent 20th-century women politicians