Gyalo Thondup

Gyalo Thondup (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་ལོ་དོན་འགྲུབ, Wylie: rgyal lo don 'grub; Chinese: 嘉乐顿珠; pinyin: Jiālè Dùnzhū, born 1928) is the second-eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama. He often acted as the Dalai Lama's unofficial envoy, and was involved in various political controversies around the Tibetan diaspora.

In late fall of 1929, Gyalo Thondup was born in the village of TaktserPing'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. In 1948, he married Zhu Dan, the daughter of a Guomindang general. In 1949, before the Communist revolution of that year in China, Thondup left Nanjing for India via British Hong Kong. In 1951, he traveled to America and became the main source of information on Tibet for the United States Department of State. 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. Thondup maintains that he did not inform the 14th Dalai Lama about the CIA's actions, and this support ended after the 1972 Nixon visit to China.

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