The elder brother of the Dalai Lama and former chairman of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India, Gyalo Thondup, who led ...

The Dalai Lama led prayers in India on Feb. 9 mourning the loss of his elder brother, a veteran leader of the exiled Tibetan ...

Gyalo Thondup settled in India in 1952 and became a key liaison between the Tibetan exile community and the Indian government ...

The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) on Tuesday organised a prayer session at the main Tibetan temple in Dharamshala to honour ...

The exiled leader of Tibetan Buddhism, who turns 90 this year, fled Tibet in 1959 for India after a failed uprising against ...

Gyalo Thondup began discussions between Dharamsala and Beijing in 1979, in a departure from his earlier approach of armed ...

The Dalai Lama led a prayer session for Thondup at a monastery in Bylakuppe town in India’s southern state of Karnataka on Sunday where the spiritual leader is currently staying for the winter ...

Gyalo Thondup's lifelong dream of returning home alongside his brother remained unfulfilled. “We have to return home together ...

Thondup was 97 and had been suffering from age-related ailments for a long time; he lived with his two sons and their ...

The Dalai Lama led a prayer service on Sunday for his brother, his office said. After the service, as the recitation concluded, the Dalai Lama rose from his seat, saluted a photo of his late ...

Gyalo Thondup, elder brother of the Dalai Lama, passed away from age-related ailments in Kalimpong. Aged 97, Thondup was instrumental in advocating for Tibet’s cause globally, including lobbies in the ...

Gyalo Thondup, the elder brother of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, died of age-related ailments at his residence in West Bengal’s Kalimpong, a senior official said on Sunday. He was 97.