Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji

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| image = Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji and grandson.jpg

| caption = Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji and the king Jigme Singye Wangchuck (her grandson) in 1979

| name = Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji

| birth_date = 1897

| birth_place = Gangtok, Kingdom of Sikkim

| education =

| spouse = Gonzim Sonam Topgay Dorji
(m. 1918–1953; his death)

| children = 5

| parents = Chogyal Thutob Namgyal (father)
Yeshay Dolma (mother)

| relatives =

| death_date = {{Death_date_and_given_age|1994|3|26|97}}

| death_place = Bhutan House, Kalimpong, India

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Rani Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji ({{langx|dz|མ་ཡུམ་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་དབང་མོ་རྡོ་རྗེ}}, {{bo|w=ma-yum chos-dbyings dbang-mo rdo-rje}}) was the mother of Queen Grandmother Ashi Kesang Choden of Bhutan.[http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/s/sikkim.html Genealogy] She was Choying Wangmo Dorji by her marriage.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} She is best known for designing the Flag of Bhutan. She died in 1994.{{cite web|url=http://www.bhutan2008.bt/en/node/256|access-date=2010-09-25|title =National Symbols|year=2008|publisher=Department of Information Technology|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706162643/http://www.bhutan2008.bt/en/node/256|archive-date=2011-07-06}}

Work

Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji designed the first Bhutan flag with the senior members of the monastic clergy of the Zhung Dratshang(Central Monastic Body): Bhutan had been invited to attend the first Asian conference in New Delhi on March 23, 1947, and a flag representing Bhutan was necessitated for the occasion. Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji and Bhutan's late prime minister, Lyonchen Jigme Palden Dorji (her son), represented Bhutan at the conference.{{cite web|title=Bhutans national flag|url=http://www.kuenselonline.com/bhutans-national-flag-designed-during-first-asian-conference/#.VBYu01d0Ykk|accessdate=15 September 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915051250/http://www.kuenselonline.com/bhutans-national-flag-designed-during-first-asian-conference/#.VBYu01d0Ykk|archivedate=15 September 2014}}

She was deeply religious and would donate large amounts of money and offered many personal sacred reliquaries to build temples and monasteries in Bhutan. She was involved with the translation of the History of Sikkim by Gyalmo Yeshay Dolma(her mother) as well as several other works with scholars such as Gendun Chophel, Barmoik Athing and so on. {{cite web|title=Mayum Chonying Wangmo Dorji (obituary)|url=http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/bot/pdf/bot_1994_02_obituary.pdf|via=cam.ac.uk|accessdate=30 August 2019}}

She was formerly the Jetsunma of Phensang Monastery in Sikkim. Her modern education was privately tutored, and her wedding took place at Bhutan House, Kalimpong, on 5 April 1918.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}