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Gyalo Thondup | |
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རྒྱལ་ལོ་དོན་འགྲུབ | |
.jpg) Thondup in 2009 | |
| Born | c. 1928 |
| Died | February 8, 2025 Kalimpong, West Bengal, India |
| Other names | 嘉乐顿珠 |
| Spouse |
Zhu Dan
(m. 1948; died 1986) |
| Children | 3 |
Gyalo Thondup (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་ལོ་དོན་འགྲུབ, Wylie: rgyal lo don 'grub; Chinese: 嘉乐顿珠; pinyin: Jiālè Dùnzhū; c. 1928 – 8 February 2025)[a] was a Tibetan political operator in exile. The second-eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama, he was his closest advisor. From 1952 onward, he was based in India. Through the 1950s and 1960s, he worked with the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States during its unsuccessful campaign to use armed Tibetan rebels against China.[1]
Thondup helped to negotiate the Dalai Lama's safe passage to India following his escape from Lhasa in 1959.[2] After US support of the Tibetan resistance ended in the 1970s, he often acted as the Dalai Lama's unofficial envoy to China and attempted to negotiate his return.[1]
His bestselling memoir, The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet, was published in 2015. Following his death in his mid- to late-90s, The Washington Post said Thondup was "arguably the second-most important figure in modern Tibetan history", viewed by many governments around the world as a de facto political leader of Tibet.[1]
- ^ a b c d Johnson, Tim (9 February 2025). "Gyalo Thondup, Dalai Lama's brother and towering figure in Tibet, dies". The Washington Post. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
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