New Delhi – the older brother of the Dallai Lama and the former Tibetan Government Presidan in India, Gyalo Thondup, who died several rounds of talks with China and worked with foreign authorities for the Tibetan Cause. He was 97 years old.
Thondup died in his home in Kalimpong, a hill at the foot of Himalayas on Saturday, on Saturday night. No other details are immediately exempt from his death.
Tibetan media deserving Thondup for networking with foreign governments and praised his role in facilitating US support for Tibetan struggle.
Dalai Lama on Sunday in the monastery in the town of Vlakpe in the southern state in the Sunday in India in India in the southern Cars, in the Indian Leader in which the spiritual leader is currently staying in the winter months .
He prayed for Thondup’s “Swift rebirth”, in accordance with the Buddhist traditions and said that “his efforts to the Tibetan struggle are huge and we are grateful on his contribution.”
Thondup, one of the six sisters of Tibetan spiritual leader and the only brother who did not groom for religious life, made India his home in 1952. years and helped develop early contacts with the Indian and American governments to seek Tibet support. In 1957, Thondup helped hire Tibetan fighters sent to American training camps in the coming years, the U.S. Radio-Asian Athia report.
According to RFA, Thondup was primarily responsible for connecting to the Indian government, including Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, when Dalai Lama ran into India in 1959. years. He also played a key role in establishing Tibetan relations with American officials.
Thondup began discussions between Tibetans and Chinese leaders in 1979. year, in leaving his earlier approach, who asked for an armed fight against Chinese Tibet’s control. The meeting was set up for a number of formal negotiations between the official envoys of the Dalai Lama and the Chinese leadership that continued to stop in 2010. years.
In an interview with RFA broadcast, Thondup said that Neither India could not resolve the Tibetan issue either now, and that progress could only come to face-to-face conversations with Beijing.
Thondup served as Chairman of the Tibetan Government in Exile based in the Indian place of the northern hill Dharamshal since 1991. until 1993. years.
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