Gyalo Thondup, Dalai Lama’s key interlocutor with Beijing, passes away at 97

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(TibetanReview.net, Feb09’25) – Gyalo Thondup, the middle of the Dalai Lama’s three elder brothers, and his key interlocutor with Beijing right since 1950, is no more. He passed away on Feb 8 at his home in Kalimpong, India, aged 97 years old.

Born at Taktser Village in the eastern Tibetan province of Amdo, the birthplace also of the Dalai Lama, he was sent to China in 1944 at 14 years of age to study and understand the country better. The purpose was to prepare him to serve the Tibetan government at a time when the neighbouring giant was on the cusp of revolutionary changes, according to a video-interview Gyalo Thondup gave to former Namgyal Monastery monk Losang Samten in 1992.

However, his s...

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