New Delhi-Dalai Lama’s elder brother and former Tibetan government chairman 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. In 1957, in 1957, the US financial support Radio Free Asia reports that Thundup helped recruit Tibetan fighters who were sent to US training camps in later years.
According to the RFA, Thund Up was primarily responsible for contacting the Indian government, including Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, when the Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959. He also played a key role in establishing relations with Tibetan leaders with US officials.
In 1979, Thundup started a dialogue between the Tibetans and the Chinese leaders from their first point of view, demanding an armed struggle against Chinese control over Tibet. The meeting laid the foundation for a formal dialogue between the Dalai Lama’s official envoy and the Chinese leadership, which continued till 2010.
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.
From 1991 to 1993, Thundup served as chairman of the Tibetan Government based in Dharmashala, the northern hills of India.
