Description
The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong tells the peculiar story of the Dalai Lama’s circle of relatives, the exile of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism from Tibet, and the enduring political crisis that has seen remote and bleakly beautiful Tibet all but disappear as an independent nation-state.
For the last sixty years, Gyalo Thondup has been at the at the heart of the epic struggle to give protection to and advance Tibet in the face of unreliable allies, overwhelming odds, and devious rivals, playing an utterly decided and unique role in a Cold War high-altitude superpower rivalry. Here, for the first time, he reveals how he found himself whisked between Chiang Kai-shek, Zhou Enlai, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the CIA, as he tried to protected, on behalf of his brother, the way forward for Tibet.