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Dalai Lama's brother dies in U.S

Taktser Rinpoche, the pro-independence eldest brother of the Dalai Lama, has died in his U.S. home, a family member and a Tibet advocacy group said on Saturday. He was 86.

Dalai Lama was recently hospitalized for 5 days (August 28, 2008 - September 2, 208).