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Gyalo Thondup

Tibetan personality, brother of Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)

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born: 1928
died: 2025
age at death: 96
known for: politician, diplomat

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Gyalo Thondup was a Tibetan political operator in exile. The second-oldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama, he was his closest advisor. From 1952 onward, he was based in India. Through the 1950s and 1960s, he worked with the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States during its unsuccessful campaign to use armed Tibetan rebels against China.

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