He was a good man who did his best for the Tibetan cause. I pray he will take a good rebirth as a Tibetan again and that he will be able to serve the ...

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, ...

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 ...

Gyalo Thondup, who has died aged 97, was the elder brother of the 14th Dalai Lama and a significant figure in Tibetan history in his own right. Fluent in English, Mandarin and Tibetan, he worked ...

FILE – Gyalo Thondup, elder brother of the Dalai Lama, speaks to media in Dharamshala, India, Nov. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia, File) AP International ...