Gyalo Thondup (Tibetan : རྒྱལ་ལོ་དོན་འགྲུབ, Wylie : rgyal lo don 'grub; Chinese :嘉乐顿珠; pinyin :Jiālè Dùnzhū), born c.1927, [1] is the second-eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama. He often acted as the Dalai Lama's unofficial envoy.
Gyalo Thondup (Tibetan : རྒྱལ་ལོ་དོན་འགྲུབ, Wylie : rgyal lo don 'grub; Chinese :嘉乐顿珠; pinyin :Jiālè Dùnzhū), born c.1927, [1] is the second-eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama. He often acted as the Dalai Lama's unofficial envoy.
In late fall of 1927, [1] Gyalo Thondup was born in the village of Taktser, [2] Amdo (Ping'an District, Qinghai province). In 1939, he moved with his family to Lhasa.
In 1942, at the age of 14, Thondup went to Nanjing, the capital of Republican China, to study Standard Chinese and the history of China. He often visited Chiang Kai-shek at his home and ate dinner with him. [3] "In fact, young Gyalo Thondup ate his meals at the Chiang family table, from April 1947 until the summer of 1949, and tutors selected by Chiang educated the boy." [4] In 1948, he married Zhu Dan, the daughter of a Kuomintang general.
In 1949, before the Communist revolution of that year in China, Thondup left Nanjing for India via British Hong Kong. "Gyalo Thondup... was the first officially acknowledged Tibetan to visit Taiwan since 1949. Taipei Radio announced the meeting between President Chang Kai-shek on 21 May 1950." [5] Fluent in Chinese, Tibetan and English, [4] he "later facilitated semi-official contacts between the Tibetan-government-in-exile and the Republic of China (ROC) as well as with the People's Republic of China (PRC) government in 1979." [5]
In 1951, he traveled to America and became the main source of information on Tibet for the United States Department of State. [6] America's Central Intelligence Agency promised to make Tibet independent from China in exchange for Thondup's support in organizing guerrilla units to fight against the People's Liberation Army, an offer which Thondup accepted. [3] [7] [8] Thondup maintains that he did not inform the 14th Dalai Lama about the CIA's actions, [9] and this support ended after the 1972 Nixon visit to China.
With the permission of the Dalai Lama, Thondup met Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979 for open political talks, which Thondup terminated in 1993, feeling them to be useless. [3] In the 1990s, Thondup made several official visits to China, acting as the Dalai Lama's unofficial envoy. [10] In recent years, Thondup has repeatedly stated that dialogue is the only way to achieve progress with China. [11] In 1998, the Central Tibetan Administration in exile criticized Thondup for not letting the Dalai Lama know about the CIA's involvement in Tibet. [9] Over a decade later, Thondup accused his sister-in-law's father of embezzling money from the Central Tibetan Administration. [12]
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"From the 1950s until today, Gyalo Thondup, who speaks fluent Chinese, Tibetan, and English, has occasionally been sought out by Taiwanese, Chinese, British, and American officials in an attempt to contact the Dalai Lama. Beginning in 1946, Chiang Kai-shel groomed him for this role. In fact, young Gyalo Thondup ate his meals at the Chiang family table, from April 1947 until the summer of 1949, and tutors selected by Chiang educated the boy.
Indeed, after the 1962 war, B.N. Mullik, India's Intelligence Bureau Chief, told Gyalo Thondup, the Dalai Lama's brother and a top CIA asset, that India supported Tibet's "eventual liberation".
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