Rumtek, additionally referred to as the Dharmachakra Centre,  a Tibetan Buddhist religious residence set within the Indian state of geographic area twenty four kms. from the capital Gangtok. The Golden Stupa is at the middle of a replacement shrine area within the original building of the destiny Shri Nalanda Institute is that the Golden Stupa (Lhabab Chodten), a powerful container that contains the valuable relics and holy remains of His quality the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje. Tsurphu labrang, the mostadministrator of Rumtek Hindu deity Chakra Centre, had the shrine specially made to function the receptacle for these objects of worship and deep veneration.

                           Rumtek Monastery Gangtok

Rumtek religious residence is that the seat of his quality, the XVIth Gyawla Karmapa, the pinnacle of thedestiny Kagyu order of Buddhism.

Rumtek  a far-famed religious residence,for the Tibetan Buddhists,Originally referred to as theHindu deity Chakra Centre, it includes a fine looking shrine temple and a religious residence for the monks. The sixteenth Karmapa engineered the religious residence. The place got an existence within the Buddhist journeying map, particularly when Chinese habitation in Tibet and sequent relocations of some Tibetan non secular gurus to geographic area.

The new religious residence was completed in 1966, in four years time, the muse stone of that was ordered by the King of geographic area. Thus, it's obvious that the Buddhists take into account the place as extremely pristine.

The tale of two Karmapas 

By Julian Gearing 

DHARMASALA, India - Karmapa Urgyen Trinley - also sometimes spelt as Orgyen Trinley - has a term for what is holding him back from taking up his seat as head of his Tibetan Buddhist lineage at Rumtek monastery in Sikkim - "environmental problems". Four years after the Tibetan lama hit the world headlines when he left his monastery in Tibet aiming for his "crown", he has hit a brick wall. 

In his private audience room in Gyuto monastery, a short distance from the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, the young lama prefers not totalk about the politics that prevent him from going to the Karma Kagyu school's exile headquarters Rumtek, saying that the process of resolving the problem "takes time". As he speaks, Indian intelligence agents, standing a discrete distance away, try to listen in on the conversation. Soldiers carrying assault rifles stand guard outside. 

Indian authorities are suspicious over why the first high lama to be recognized by the Chinese communist government should want to flee Tibet. Since his journey into exile, the lama has only been given permission by the Indian authorities to travel on pilgrimages to holy places. And he is banned from travelling to his goal, Rumtek, in Sikkim, a small Himalayan state under Indian administration but claimed by China. 
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Tibetan Buddhist factions come to blows: A dispute that has challenged the Dalai Lama's authority led yesterday to a battle, writes Tim McGirk in New Delhi:

Friday 18 March 1994

TIM MCGIRK IN NEW DELHI

The story begins with an ending: the death in a US hospital in 1981 of the Karmapa who, after the Dalai Lama, is probably the most revered spiritual figure in the Himalayas. Having been through 16 reincarnations already, rebirth had become a bit humdrum for the Karmapa. He traditionally scribbles down clues to make it easier for his disciples to locate the family where he will next appear, so that he can swiftly be spirited back to the monastery. With the last Karmapa it seemed that he left no forwarding address.

Years passed, and Rumtek monastery in Sikkim was swamped by hundreds of letters from Tibetan parents who, like show-biz mothers in the West, were convinced that their child was the exceptional one. None of them was. The monks of the Karmapa's Kagyu order despaired at the thought that their spiritual leader was somewhere on the planet, in the shape of a child, and they could not even begin to search for him.

Then, in March 1992, one of the four regents at Rumtek monastery, Tai Situ Rinpoche (himself a reincarnate lama) claimed he was repairing an amulet given him by the Karmapa when he noticed a slip of paper inside. It was Karmapa's prediction: he would reappear in Lathok district of Tibet in the year of the Wood Ox (1985) in 'a beautiful nomad's place . . . with the miraculous, far-reaching sound of the white one'. Situ Rinpoche told the other regents of his find. But Shamar Rinpoche, pushing his own candidate, a nephew of Bhutan's king, dismissed it as a forgery.

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