Diki Tsering

Diki Tsering
Born	c. 1901
Died	12 January 1981(1981-01-12) (aged 79–80)
Spouse	Choekyong Tsering
Children	Lhamo Thondup (Tenzin Gyatso), the 14th Dalai Lama Thubten Jigme Norbu, the 6th Taktser Rinpoche Tendzin Choegyal, the 16th Ngari Rinpoche
Tibetan name
Tibetan	བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཚེ་རིང་
Wylie	Bde-skyid Tshe-ring
Tibetan Pinyin	Têci Cering
Chinese name
Chinese	德吉才仁
Hanyu Pinyin	Déjí Cáirén

Diki Tsering (བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཚེ་རིང་; c. 1901 – 12 January 1981)^[1] was a 20th-century Tibetan woman, known as the mother of three reincarnated Rinpoches/Lamas: Lhamo Thondup, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.

.In Diki's biography Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's she mentioned that she always knew Her son Lhamo Dhondup (HH The 14th Dalai Lama) was special and although somewhat surprised when he was said to be the 14th Dalai Lama she still always knew that he was someone that was incredibly special.

References

1. Marcello, Patricia Cronin (2003). The Dalai Lama: A Biography. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 2, 131. ISBN 978-0313361746.