Pema is the minor character in the Nickelodeon series The Legend of Korra,the sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender.
She is an Air Acolyte, the wife of Tenzin, the daughter-in-law of water bending Master Katara and Avatar Aang, the sister-in-law of Bumi Jr and Kiya Jr, niece-in-law of Chief Sokka, and the mother of Jinora, Ikki, Meelo and Rohan.
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Allies[]
- Oogi
- Air Nation
- Opal Beifong
- Kai
- Air Acolytes
- Metalbending Police Task Force
- Lin Beifong - Friend
- Beifong Family
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Trivia[]
- Pema (Tibetan: པདྨ།, Wylie: padma, English: Lotus) shares her name with various important Asian figures, including:
- The Tibetan Buddhist nun, author, and teacher Pema Chödrön.
- Gendun Drup, the first Dalai Lama in Tibetan Buddhism, whose birthname was Pema Dorje.
- The sister of the 14th and current Dalai Lama, Pema Jetsun.
- Jetsun Pema, Druk Gyaltsuen of the Kingdom of Bhutan, the wife of the current Druk Gyalpo.
- Pema may be a descendant of the Earth Kingdom due to her eye color.
- She is the first known nonbender to give birth to an airbender.
- Pema is the second character in the Avatar franchise to have gone through labor and given birth onscreen, the first being Ying.
- Pema is the second character in Avatar to consider the Avatar to be a daughter figure, followed by Hei-Ran.
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