Dalai Lama’s brother, a key figure in Tibet’s fight for freedom, dies in Kalimpong | India News
KALIMPONG: Gyalo Thondup, the Dalai Lama‘s elder brother who was a towering figure in Tibetan politics and fled China before his sibling did, died Saturday aged 97 at his home in north Bengal’s Kalimpong. “He (Thondup) passed away peacefully due to old age,” said a family member, reports Nisha Chettri.Another family source stressed that Thondup, … Read more