Ani Choying Drolma Appointed Vice-Chair of Lumbini Development Trust

KATHMANDU – Singer and Buddhist nun Ani Choying Drolma (Choying Drolma Lama Moktan) has been appointed vice-chair of the Lumbini Development Trust.

Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Khadak Raj Paudel said the Council of Ministers, at its meeting on Asoj 30, decided to appoint her as vice-chair on the ministry’s proposal.

She has been nominated to the post under Clause (b) of Sub-section (1) of Section 8 of the Lumbini Development Trust Act, 2042 (Bikram Sambat). Under the Act, the vice-chair’s term is five years.

The post of the trust’s vice-chair had been vacant for a long time. Born in Kathmandu in 1970, Ani Choying Drolma entered the Nagi Gompa in Shivapuri at the age of 13. She studied Buddhist mantras and religious music under the guidance of the Buddhist teacher Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, and later became internationally known through her singing.