Khandro Khachö Wangmo

Khandro Khachö Wangmo (mkha' 'gro mKha’ sPyod dBang mo / མཁའ་འགྲོ་མཁའ་སྤྱོད་དབང་མོ་ / 1921-1987) was the daughter of the 6th Kündröl Dragpa Hungchen Dro’dül Lingpa (hung chen 'gro 'dul gling pa / ཧཱུྃ་ཆེནའགྲོ་འདུལ་གླིང་པ་ / 1901-1956). She was the sister of Mongyal Lha-sré Rinpoche (sMon rGyal lha sras / སྨོན་རྒྱལ་ལྷ་སྲས་) and the incarnation of Khandro Déchen Wangmo (mKha' 'gro bDe chen dBang mo / མཁའ་འགྲོ་བདེ་ཆེན་དབང་མོ་ / 1866-1929), teacher and consort of Sang-ngak Lingpa (gSang sNgags gLing pa / གསད་སྔགས་ིང་པ་). Both khandromas (mKha' 'gro ma / མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ་) were important famale gTértön (gTer sTon) who discovered statues, objects, and l texts from mountains such as Kongpo Bönri in South-eastern Tibet and Mount Mu-rDo and Lang-lang Drag-kar in Nyarong, in the far East of Tibet.

Khandro Khachö Wangmo was the consort of Tsophu Dorlo Rinpoche (mTsho 'phu rDor lo / མཚོ་འཕུ་རྡོ་ལོ་ / 1929 -2004). The 2nd Sangyum of Tsophu Dorlo Rinpoche was her sister. Khandro Khachö Wangmo died in central Tibet in 1987 when she was on pilgrimage. A year after her death, a baby was born to Tsophu Dorlo Rinpoche and his second wife —— and Tsophu Dorlo Rinpoche identified the child as the incarnation or Tulku (sPrul sKu / སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་) of Khandro Khachö Wangmo.

Khandro Khachö Wangmo was a Lineage Lama and gTértön of Sar Bön. She was a gTértön who discovered a small statue of Tsé-pag’mèd, a nine-pronged dorje, and khandro jewels from Kongpo Bön-ri in South-eastern Tibet. Her discovery was publicly witnessed and documented by Span Hanna. The essay was entitled ‘Vast as the Sky, the Terma Tradition in Modern Tibet’ and is included in a book entitled ’Tantra and Popular Religion in Tibet’ by Geoffrey Samuel and Hamish Gregor.