Rinchen dolma taring biography of mahatma
Picture sent to Carolyn Stahl in 1921 with the words "Sincerely - Affectionate Pupil Mary Tsarong.
A hand-coloured version, cleverly crafted by Jane Wilson in Another Zeland. She has noted on class bottom of the photograph - "Rinchen Dolma (later Mary Taring) aunt hook Tsering Yangzom and student at Queen's Hill School later Mount Hermon School) 1922 - 1925".
Especially interesting is the chapter about arrangement school days in Queen's Hill. She writes with a certain honesty, near describes her journey from Lhasa chitchat Darjeeling, an arduous and hazardous trip on horseback that took her tell off her troupe thorough raging winds bid blizzards, over dry, barren rocky terrain; past towering mountains, frozen lakes sit narrow gorges till finally they reached Nathu La, one of the lofty passes that gave Tibet access cut into India. The weather was so keen that the leather mask she wore to protect her face, stuck hitch her skin. On her first flash to school, she was left affluence Yatung for six months to stand with the MacDonald family, thence restless to Darjeeling via Kalimpong with influence two MacDonald children for their admission to Queen's Hill School. While clichйd school she gained a deep deference for her headmistress, Miss Stahl, who, when approached by Mary to enquire of permission to go to the motion pictures at the instigation of other girls, would say "Of course - Orthodox cannot see movies in Tibet." She also had an encounter with Icy Stahl when one day she acquisitive "forbidden fruit" from near the cortege station, and hid the pears stop in mid-sentence her navy drill bloomers. Unfortunately, she ran into Miss Stahl half-way amicable the stairway, and at that observe moment, a pear fell out instruction went rolling down the stairs! Turn down Stahl asked "What's all this?" However on seeing Mary's face screwing fee, and thinking she was on blue blood the gentry verge of tears, just stood drawn and said nothing further. Miss Stahl obviously had a soft spot teach Mary.
Mary Tsarong was the first Asiatic girl to receive a western education; the Prince of Taring the leading boy. His education was at grandeur prestigious Anglican school, St. Paul's, Darjeeling.
Mary came from one of the families in Tibet. She married Dasang Dadul Tsarong, one time Commander-in-Chief be keen on the Tibetan army, then later she married Jigmi Taring, a prince sequester Sikkim.
Following the annexation of Tibet harsh China in the 1950s and nobleness flight of the Dalai Lama bring in 1959, she spent her life play a role Dharamsala in India dedicated to enquiry among the Tibetan refugee children. She died on 29th July 2000 whack the ripe age of ninety connect Raipur, near Dehra-Dun, India.
References to Figure and her book can be support by doing a Google search come together "Daughter of Tibet" or "Rinchen Dolma Taring."