Coordinate expression of second term in tensor Laplacian

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In this section, the Laplacian of any tensor is given as

$\Delta T = g^{ij}(\nabla_i\nabla_j T - \nabla_{\nabla_i e_j}T)$

As I see it, since $\nabla_i{e_j}$ is a vector, we can apply

$\nabla_{V^k e_k}T = V^k \nabla_kT$

and since $\nabla_i{e_j}$ is also the connection,

$\nabla_i{e_j} \equiv \Gamma^k_{ij}e_k$

we end up with

$\nabla_{\nabla_i{e_j}}T = \Gamma^k_{ij}\nabla_k T$

Is that valid? I'm not too confident with differential geometry manipulations, and I didn't see the Laplacian written in coordinate form anywhere. But the rest of it is just coordinate covariant derivatives, which should be more straightforward.