By Ali Watkins Gyalo Thondup, the eldest brother of the Dalai Lama and a political operator in Tibet and the greater region, has died, the Dalai Lama’s office confirmed in a statement.

China says it is open to talks if Dalai Lama recognises Tibet, Taiwan as parts of China Tibet being an inalienable part is distortion of history, says deputy speaker of Tibetan-parliament-in-exile ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Gyalo Thondup, elder brother of the Dalai Lama, speaks to media in Dharamshala, India, Nov. 19, 2008. (AP ...

China says it is open to the Dalai Lama returning to Tibet if he recognises Taiwan and Tibet as parts of China. The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader has been living in exile for more than 65 ...

While the Dalai Lama was trained in Buddhist teachings, Thondup was groomed for political leadership. He studied in Nanjing under the patronage of Chiang Kai-shek, leader of China’s nationalist ...

Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Tuesday he was "deeply saddened" and was offering prayers for those killed in a devastating earthquake in China's remote Himalayan region.

China has been targeting the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, since 1959 after he was forced to flee his ... China is pushing for the ‘sinization’ of the same Buddhism (which is the opposite of ...

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

BEIJING (Reuters) - China hopes the current Dalai Lama could "return to the right path" and fully remedy his political propositions, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday. China is open to ...

Thondup died at his home in Kalimpong, a hill town in the Himalayan foothills of eastern West Bengal state, on Saturday evening, media reports said.

The elder brother of the Dalai Lama and former chairman of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India, Gyalo Thondup, who led several rounds of talks with China and worked with foreign governments ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The elder brother of the Dalai Lama and former chairman of the exiled Tibetan government in India, Gyalo Thondup, who led several rounds of talks with China and worked with ...