Do Da-sèl Wangmo

Do Da-sèl Wangmo (mDo zLa gSal dBang mo / མྡོ་ཟླ་གསལ་དབང་མོ་ / 1928–2018) was born in 1928 in Tratsang (khra tshang / ཁྲ་ཚང་) in the A-mNyi Machen (A mNy ma chen / ཨ་མཉི་མ་ཆེན་) mountains of Golok (mGo log / མགོ་ལོག་). Golok is a region which straddles Kham and AmDo. This is the area where Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s Lamas hail — other than Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje, who was born in Pemaköd.

Do Da-sèl Wangmo’s family line was that of DoKhyentsé Yeshé Dorje (mDo mKhyen brTse ye shes rDo rJe / མྡོ་མཁྱན་བརྩ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་ / 1800–1866). Her parents were DoTsé’dzin Wangmo (mDo tshe 'dzin dBang mo / མྡོ་ཚེ་འཛིན་དབང་མོ་ / 1894–1953) and Traktung Thubtob dPa’wo (khrag 'thung thub sTobs dPa' bo / ཁྲག་འཐུང་ཐུབ་སྟོབ་དཔའ་བོ་).

Her mother was a prestigious doctor and the daughter of Rigpa’i Raltri (rig pa'i ral gri / རིག་པའི་རལ་གྲི་ / 1830–1896); while her father was a ngakpa (sNgags pa / སྔགས་པ་ / mantrin).
She partly raised by her maternal uncle, DoGyépa Khamsum Zilnön Dorje (mDo dGyes pa khams gSum zil gNon rDo rJe / མྡོ་དགྱེ་པ་ཁམས་གསུམ་ཟིལ་གནོན་རྡོ་རྗེ་ / 1890–1939) as her father was often absent due to his yogic lifestyle.

Prior to giving birth, Tsé’dzin Wangmo dreamed of radiant moonlight which inspired her to name her daughter Dasèl Wangmo — Moon Radiance Powerful Lady.
She spent much of her youth at the mDo Gar (mDo sGar ri khrod / མདོ་སྒར་རི་ཁྲོད་) encampment established by her great-grandfather DoKhyentsé Yeshé Dorje.
The encampment was originally situated near the Turquoise Lake (g.Yu mTsho / གཡུ་མཚོ་) in Makhaka (rMa kha kha་/ རམ་ཁ་ཁ་) near Zhaktra Mountain in Minyak.
The encampment was nomadic as DoKhyentsé Yeshé Dorje was accustomed to roaming.

Da-sèl Wangmo began receiving teachings in her youth whilst living at the Encampment. She first received her great-grandfather DoKhyentsé Yeshe Dorje's gTérma collection of The Innermost Secret Khandro Heart-Essence (yang gSang mKha' 'gro thugs thig ཡང་གསང་མཁའ་འགྲོ་ཐུག་ཐིག་), containing The Natural Liberation of Grasping ('dzin pa rang 'grol / འཛིནཔ་རང་འགྲོལ་).

She began to receive the empowerments and transmission of these gTérmas from DoGyépa Dorje. When she was thirteen, Da-sèl Wangmo, her mother, and her uncle, Tulku Rangjung (sPrul sku rang 'byung / སྤྲུལསྐུ་རང་འབྱུང་ / 1908–1946), went to ་A’dzom Gar (A 'dzoms sGar / ཨ་ཛོམས་སྒར་), where she received teachings from A’dzom Gyal-sé Gyür’mèd Dorje (A 'dzom rGyal sras 'gyur med rDo rJe /ཨ་འཛོམ་གྱུར་འམེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་ / 1895——).
When she was seventeen, she joined her mother and uncle, Trülku Rangjung, on a pilgrimage to sacred sites in central Tibet.

The most significant place she visited was Tséring Jong (tshe ring lJongs / ཚེ་རིང་ལྗོངས་), the seat of Jig’mèd Lingpa ('jigs med gling pa / ཇིགས་འམེད་གླིང་པ་ / 1730–1798), her family had several close familial and religious connections toTséring Jong: her great-grandfather, DoKhyentsé was the body emanation of Jig’mèd Lingpa.

Her grandfather, Rigpai Reltri had history with the site, as he was a incarnation of the fourth Drigung Chuntsang Ten’dzin Chökyi Gyaltsen ('bri gung chung tshang bsTan 'dzin chos kyi rGyal mTshan / འབྲི་གུང་ཆུང་ཙང་བསྟན་འཛིན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་ཚན་ / 1793–1826), who was the son of Jig’mèd Lingpa (‘jigs ‘med gLing pa / འཇིགས་འམེད་གླིང་པ་).