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In Dec 2010 residents of Kalimpong, a town on the Indian boundary with Tibet, turned out en masse to welcome the Dalai Lama. It was only then they realized for the first time that the neighbor they recognized as the noodle machine of Kalimpong was also the Dalai Lama's more aged brother. The Tibetan religious leader got come to visit the Gaden Tharpa Choling monastery and become a member of his brother for lunchtime in the family compound. Gyalo Thondup has long resided from the spotlight and hidden from view, but his expereince of living has been dedicated to the reason for his younger brother and Tibet. He dished up for many years as the Dalai Lama's special envoy, the respected interlocutor between Tibet and overseas leaders from Chiang Kai-shek to Jawaharlal Nehru, Zhou Enlai to Deng Xiaoping. Going the globe and meeting nowadays, Thondup has been an important witness for some of the epochal occasions of the 20th century. Nobody has an improved grasp of the ongoing great game as the divergent interests of China, India, Russia, and america continue to play themselves out over the Tibetan plateau. Only the Dalai Lama himself has performed a far more important role in the political background of modern, tragedy-ridden Tibet. Indeed, the Dalai Lama's dramatic get away from Lhasa to exile in India wouldn't normally have been possible without his brother's behind-the-scenes help. Now, together with Anne F. Thurston, who cowrote the international best seller The Private Life of Chairman Mao, Gyalo Thondup is finally showing his story. The settings are amazing - the Tibetan province of Amdo, where in fact the two brothers spent their early years as a child; Tibet's famous capital of Lhasa; Nanjing, where Thondup received a Chinese education; Taiwan, where he fled when he cannot return to Tibet; Calcutta, Delhi, and the Himalayan hill towns of India, where he finally made his home....
