Dechen Wangmo (Tibetan Buddhist)

Jetsun Dechen Wangmo (Tibetan: བདེ་ཆེན་དབང་མོ, Wylie: bde chen dbang mo, c.1925 - 2011) was a Tibetan Buddhist.

[1] Wangmo was the daughter of a noble family which was said to be descended from the legendary King Gaesar of Ling.

[2] She was Minling Khenchen Rinpoche's mother and the aunt of the 11th Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche, the 11th throne holder of Mindrolling.

[3] She was the sister of Jetsun Tsewang Lhamo,[4] and in 1982 they and others left Tibet for Mindrolling monastery in India, a Vajrayana monastery.

[1][5] She died at age 86 in 2011 and was cremated at Mindrolling monastery.