Jetsun Pema (born 1940)

Jetsun Pema (Tibetan: རྗེ་བཙུན་པདྨ་; Wylie: rje btsun padma; Chinese: 吉尊白瑪, born 7 July 1940) is the sister of the 14th Dalai Lama.

[1] At the behest of her elder brother, the 14th Dalai Lama, she became the President of the Tibetan Children's Villages (TCV),[2] holding that position until her retirement in August 2006.

In 1980, she was sent by the Dalai Lama to visit Tibet as the leader of the third Fact Finding Delegation and for three months traveled extensively all over the country.

Jetsun Pema is also the Governing Body member of the Tibet House in New Delhi and the His Holiness the Dalai Lama Charitable Trust.

In July 1993, she resigned from the Kashag (Cabinet) and is today the President of the Tibetan Children's Villages.