Gyalo Thinkup, the political operator and the Dalai Lama brother, dies in 97

Gallao Thundoub, the older brother of Dalai Lama and a political operator in Tibet and the Grand Region, died, the Dalai Lama office confirmed in a statement. On Sunday, he died in Kalimpong, West Bengal, India, according to Tibetan media. He was 97 years old.

“He was a good man who did his best to the Tibetan issue,” Dalai Lama said in the statement. “I pray to God to take a good new birth, you wrote again and that he will be able to serve the Tibetan management, which is a mixture of spirituality and politics again,” he said. .

A prominent figure in the society of Tibetan and politics, Mr. Thundoub It was called The second most influential person in the small Himalayas lands, which his brother, Tenzin Jyatu, Dalai Lama and the head of Buddhist Tibetia were superior to.

together, The brothers identified a political era In Tibet, the isolated lands are increasingly located in the Himalayas, which has long fought Chinese influence and control. While the Dalai Lama was often more facing the audience, as interest and awards were seen all over the world, Mr. Thondup was seen as Cheapped geopolitical operator Which was more comfortable from the limelight.

For decades, Mr. Thundup called for paths to allow his brother – exiled since 1959 – to return to the region. He kept the company of international leaders, hoping to benefit from the various stakeholders in the Tibetan independence service.

One of the six children born to farmers in the Chinese town of Takster, Mr. Thinkup worked as a lifelong consultant for his younger brother. He was sent abroad to study, and he was the only one of his non -street siblings of religious life.

He was released from spiritual obligations, and Mr. Thundup spent his life at work for self -rule, and sometimes more aggressive than others.

Mr. Thondup settled in India in 1952 and was an early mediator when the Dalai Lama fled there after the Tibetan uprising in 1959 against Chinese rule. Mr. Thundoub was later called his safe brother to India, one of his greatest achievements.

Mr. Thundup will continue to develop some of the first official Tibetan communications with the Indian and American authorities in the 1950s and sixties, and request their support. In the fifties of the last century, the CIA helped a bad attempt to arm the separatists Tibetan against the Chinese Communist government.

Mr. Thundup met periodically with Chinese leaders in the efforts made to alleviate the Chinese influence on Tibet. Even with the collapse of talks in recent years, he urged the Tibetan to stay engaged.

“It is necessary for Tibetan people to lose the hope of advancing our rights to the Chinese government,” Mr. Thundoub said at a press conference in 2008. Activity and struggle against Chinese rule.

Dalai Lama He led the prayer service on Sunday To his brother, his office said.

After the recitation ended, the Dalai Lama rose from his seat, a picture of his late brother and returned to his living space, the statement said from his office.

Mujib Mashal The reports contributed.