China hopes the current Dalai Lama could "return to the right path" and fully remedy his political propositions, the Chinese ...

home to the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile. They say never meet your heroes, but when we were unexpectedly given the chance to meet His Holiness, we were willing to take ...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, smelling danger, left Lhasa secretly on the night of the 17th March, 1959, with important members of his personal staff, three Cabinet Ministers, and members of his family ...

Thondup was 97 and had been suffering from age-related ailments for a long time; he lived with his two sons and their ...

On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was ...

He was 97. “He was a good man who did his best for the Tibetan cause,” the Dalai Lama said in the statement. “I pray that he will take a good rebirth as a Tibetan again and that he will be ...

Gyalo Thondup, the elder brother of the Dalai Lama and a pivotal figure in Tibet’s political struggle, passed away at the age of 97 at his home in Kalimpong, West Bengal, on February 8th evening.

He was believed to be 97. His death was widely reported in the Tibetan media, but no cause was provided. After the Dalai Lama, Mr. Thondup was arguably the second-most important figure in modern ...

China hopes the Dalai Lama can "return to the right path" and is open to discussions about the Nobel Peace laureate's future ...

Thondup died at his home in Kalimpong, a hill town in the Himalayan foothills of eastern West Bengal state, on Saturday evening, media reports said. The elder brother of the Dalai Lama and former ...

Tibetan media outlets credited Thondup for networking with foreign governments and praised his role in facilitating U.S. support for the Tibetan struggle. The Dalai Lama led a prayer session for ...