'' Rani'' Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji was the mother of Queen Grandmother ''Ashi'' Kesang Choden of

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/ref> She was Choying Wangmo Dorji by her marriage. She is best known for designing the

Flag of Bhutan The national flag of Bhutan ( dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་རྒྱལ་དར) is one of the national symbols of Bhutan. The flag features a Chinese dragon (''druk'' ylie 'brugin Dzongkha, the Bhutanese language) from Bhutanese myth ...

. She died in 1994.

Work

Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji designed the flag at her daughter's request: Bhutan had been invited to attend the first Asian conference in New Delhi on March 23, 1947, and a flag representing Bhutan was necessitated for the occasion. Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji and Bhutan's late prime minister, ''Lyonchen'' Jigme Palden Dorji (her son), represented Bhutan at the conference. Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji chose the Dragon as the symbol of the Kingdom of ''Druk'' (Bhutan is sometimes referred to as the Kingdom of the Dragon) and the colours yellow and orange for the colours of the flag as the colours of Buddhist religion. She was deeply religious and would donate large amounts of money to build temples and monasteries. She was educated privately and her wedding took place at Bhutan House, Kalimpong, on 5 April 1918.

Patronages

* President of the Sikkim Education Board. * Vice-President of Sikkim Research Institute of Tibetology General Council

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(1964–1965).

Ancestry

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Choying, Mayeum Bhutanese women in politics People from Gangtok 1897 births 1994 deaths Women in Sikkim politics Flag designers