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From diplomacy to disillusion with the Dalai Lama’s big brother

Gyalo Thondup, brother of the Dalai Lama, recalls in detail his many years directing Tibet’s foreign policy. But can we believe him?, asks Jonathan Mirsky

18 April 2015

9:00 AM

18 April 2015

9:00 AM

The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong Gyalo Thondup and Anne F. Thurston

Rider, pp.353, £20

Can there ever have been another book in which one of the authors (Anne Thurston in this case) so effectively pulls the rug out from under the other?

Of course Gyalo Thondup is entitled to tell his story, beginning with his life as a boy in a small town near the Tibet-China border where, in 1937, his younger brother was identified as the 14th Dalai Lama.

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