Dalai Lama's brother, a key figure in Tibet's fight for freedom, dies in Kalimpong

Sunday, 9 February 2025
Gyalo Thondup, the Dalai Lama's elder brother and a significant figure in Tibetan politics, passed away at 97 in Kalimpong. Thondup, who devoted his life to the Tibetan cause, fled Tibet in 1952 and later established a successful noodle business in Kalimpong.

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Dalai's brother, champion of the Tibet cause, and thukpa

Gyalo Thondup, the Dalai Lama's elder brother, set up a noodle-making factory, Trans Himalaya, in Kalimpong in the late 1960s. His authentic Tibetan thukpa...
IndiaTimes on February 11, 2025

Dalai Lama's brother, a key figure in Tibet's fight for freedom, dies in Kalimpong

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