New Delhi (APP) The elder brother of the Dalai Lama and former chairman of the exiled Tibetan government in India, Gaelo Thundep, who led several rounds with China and worked with foreign governments for the Tibetan cause. He was 97 years old.
Media reports say Thundip died in his home in Klimpong, a Himalayan hill in the Himalayan state of East West Bengal, on Saturday evening. No other details were immediately released about his death.
Tibetan Media Outlets supported the thunder -up for networking with foreign governments and praised their role in supporting US support for the Tibetan struggle.
The Dalai Lama on Sunday led a meeting of prayer for a thunder -up in a monastery in the Bilakopa town in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, where the spiritual leader is currently living for months of winter.
According to Buddhist traditions, he prayed for Thundep’s “rapid birth”, and said that “his efforts to the Tibetan struggle were very high and we are thankful for his contribution.”
One of the six siblings of Tibet’s spiritual leader, Thund Up and the only brother did not prepare for a religious life, made India his home in 1952 and initially with Indian and US governments to seek help for Tibet. Help to prepare contacts.
According to US financing Radio Free Asia, Thund Up was primarily responsible for contacting the Indian government, including Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, when the Dalai Lama fled to India. He also played a key role in establishing relations with Tibetan leaders with US officials.
In 1979, in 1979, while departing from the Tibetan and Chinese leaders, he demanded an armed struggle against Chinese control over Tibet.
In a 2003 RFA broadcast interview, Thundup said that neither India nor the United States will be able to solve the Tibetan issue, and that development can only come through front talks with Beijing.
Thund Up served as chairman of the exiled Tibetan government in Dharmaashala, India’s northern hill city from 1991 to 1993.
