Rinchen Lhamo

Her book, We Tibetans, was published in English in 1926 by Seeley Service & Co.[1] Rinchen Lhamo was born into a respected family at Rayaka in Kham, East Tibet.

[4] Rinchen Lhamo met Louis Magrath King (1886-1949), a British Consul stationed at Dartsedo (present day Kangding, Sichuan), probably sometime around 1919–1922.

Nonetheless women in old Tibet certainly had more freedoms and rights than their counterparts in India, China and the rest of Asia, and perhaps even more than in Victorian England.

[17][18] Rinchen's husband, Louis Magrath King, gave a collection of Tibetan religious objects and thangka paintings to the British Museum, circa 1918–1919, while serving as a Captain with the Chinese Labour Corps during World War I.

At the time of her birth, Rinchen and Louis's eldest daughter, known as Yudre, was given the name “Sheradrema (She(s)-rab (s)Gröl-ma)” by Runtsen Chimbu, the Living Buddha (tulku) of Dorje Drak, Dartsedo.