Sangyum Rigdzin Wangmo
Sangyum Rigzin Wangmo (Dudjom Sangyum Kusho Rigdzin Wangmo) married Dudjom Rinpoche while they were still in Tibet. She is the mother of Chimey Wangmo (their eldest daughter), Shenphen Dawa Rinpoche and Tsering Penzom, their younger daughter.
Sangyum Rigzin Wangmo spent many years in strict retreat and was considered a true hidden dakini. She passed away on 27 August, 2014.
Sogyal Rinpoche wrote:[1]
- Dudjom Sangyum Kusho, Rigzin Wangmo, [...] was one of the greatest dakinis I have ever known and the sangyum of Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche, my beloved master, of whom I spoke at length in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. She played such an important role in Dudjom Rinpoche’s life. With her extraordinary love, care and magnetism, she lengthened his life and was able somehow to make him stay amongst us. Theirs was an enchanting relationship. Not only did she give him great spiritual support, and inspire an aura of completeness around them, but on a human level she created an incredible atmosphere of warmth and of family.
- Often Sangyum Kusho would have visions in which dakinis would appear and grant prophecies that would lengthen Dudjom Rinpoche’s life. When I used to request him for a divination, he would tell me to ask Sangyum Kusho, and said she was better than him at divinations. It was thanks to one of her predictions that Kyabjé Trulshik Rinpoche was able to avert an obstacle to his life, and many are the occasions when she has given me prophecies, and warned me of potential hazards. In fact she was like a guardian angel for me, kind, generous, and always praying for my long life and for Khandro Tsering Chödrön and my mother, or giving us guidance and divinations.[...] Sangyum Kusho was a refuge to us all.