US EditionDalai Lama's elder brother, who led several rounds of talks with China, dies at 97
- Gyalo Thondup, the elder brother of the Dalai Lama and former chairman of the exiled Tibetan government, died at 97 in Kalimpong, India, as reported by media outlets.
- The Dalai Lama led a prayer session for Thondup, expressing gratitude for his contributions to the Tibetan struggle, according to local reports.
- Thondup was instrumental in establishing relations between Tibetan leaders and U.S. officials, as stated by Radio Free Asia.
- He initiated discussions between Tibetans and Chinese leaders in 1979, marking a shift from advocating armed struggle against Chinese control of Tibet.
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Gyalo Thondup, the Dalai Lama's elder brother and former head of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India, has died at the age of 97. Gyalo Thondup led many negotiations with China and worked with foreign governments for the Tibetan cause.
The Dalai Lama, 89, held prayers on Sunday for his older brother, former leader of the Tibetan people in exile, who died on Saturday in India at the age of...
The Dalai Lama's older brother, Gyalo Thondup, has died at the age of 97. As a confidant of the Buddhist leader, he was indispensable to his brother's foreign contacts. In his fight for an independent Tibet, he took up with the CIA, tried to entice world leaders to support him and held talks with China to no avail. Gyalo was seven when his four-year-old brother was chosen by a selection committee as the new reincarnation of the supreme Tibetan l…
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