Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gyalo Thondup in 2008: ‘I genuinely believed that the Americans wanted to help us fight for our independence. Eventually I ...

Gyalo Thondup, the elder brother of the Dalai Lama and former chairman of the exiled Tibetan government in India, died on Saturday at age 97. He died at his home in Kalimpong, West Bengal, AP reported ...

Mr. Thondup’s influence in Tibet has been seen as second only to his younger brother, Tenzin Gyatso, the exiled head of Tibetan Buddhism, whom he spent decades trying to help return to their homeland.

Brother of the Dalai Lama and envoy who led talks on the exiled leader’s possible return to Tibet with the Chinese government The life of Gyalo Thondup, who has died aged 96, was transformed after one ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The elder brother of the Dalai Lama and former chairman of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India, Gyalo Thondup, who led several rounds of talks with China and worked with foreign ...

Gyalo Thondup, the elder brother of the Dalai Lama who helped the CIA mount an ill-fated armed uprising against the Communist Chinese occupation of Tibet in the 1950s and later spent decades as a ...

The Fourteenth Dalai Lama and his brother, Gyalo Thondup, could scarcely be more different. But the ties that bind them are unbreakable. They are two sides of the same struggle for the survival of ...

Gyalo Thondup, the Dalai Lama’s eldest brother who passed away on February 9, aged 97, at his home in Kalimpong, West Bengal, was described by the New York Times as a “political operator in Tibet and ...

The death of Gyalo Thondup, elder brother to the 14th Dalai Lama and a prominent figure among exiled Tibetans, marks the “the end of an era” for attempted negotiations between Dharamsala and Beijing, ...