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Photo not dated from Gyalo Dhondup, the older brother of the Tibetan spiritual leader, in Dharamsala (India). – / AFP died in India on February 8, probably at the age of 97, Gyalo Dhondup, older brother of Dalai-Lama, will have devoted his life to defend the cause of the Tibetan people and that of his illustrious cadet by multiplying diplomatic missions in China. He had also been “Prime Minister” of Kashag, the government instance of Tibet in exile, between 1991 and 1993. Gyalo Dhondup was born in 1928 (unconfirmed date) in the village of Taktser (Tibet, in the current Chinese province of Qinghai). Coming from a family of Tibetan farmers, he is the only one of his sixteen brothers and sisters not to have been intended for religious life – nine of them did not survive early childhood. After studying in Nankin, then capital of Republican China, during the 1940s, he escaped from the Middle Empire after the victory of the troops of Mao Zedong, in 1949. He will end up settling in India in 1952 , in Kalimpong, where he died – after the invasion of the “Snow country” by Chinese communist soldiers. You have 72.96% of this article to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
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The death of Gyalo Dhondup, Tibetan activist and older brother of Dalai-Lama
