Rumtek
| Rumtek | |
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| Candidates for the office of abbot: | |
 Urgyen Trinley Dorje |
 Thaye Dorje |
| Geographic location : | 27 ° 17 '18 " N , 88 ° 33' 43" E |
| Permanent monks: | approx. 200 ( 2004 ) |
Rumtek ( Tibetan : རུམ་ ཐེག་ དགོན་པ་ , Wylie : Rum-theg Dgon-pa), also called Dharma Chakra Center , is a Buddhist monastery in the Indian state of Sikkim , about 24 km away from the capital Gangtok .
The monastery is currently the largest in Sikkim. A gold stupa contains the remains of the 16th Karmapa .
history
The first monastery in Rumtek was established by the 9th Karmapa . It served as the monastery of the Karma Kagyu lineage, but over time it fell into ruin. In 1959 the 16th Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje fled with an entourage of over 160 lamas, monks and lay people from Tibet via Bhutan to Sikkim in order to save the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism from destruction. He chose Rumtek as his new seat and rebuilt the monastery and built the new Rumtek monastery above the old monastery, of which the picture is also. In 1966 the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa consecrated the new monastery. A monastery university (Shri Nalanda Institute) was erected above the monastery in the 1990s. This building was severely damaged by the 2011 earthquake.
Rumtek has been at the center of the Karmapa conflict since the 1990s between two rival groups, each of whom favor a different candidate for the 17th Karmapa: the Karmapa Charitable Trust for Thaye Dorje and the Tsurphu Labrang group for Ogyen Trinley Dorje . For Rumtek it was at times about the claim to the property of the monastery. This question - but not that of the successor - was decided in 2004 by the competent Indian courts in favor of the Karmapa Charitable Trust .
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Opposite the actual monastery is the Karma Shri Nalanda Institute for Buddhist Studies.
credentials
- ↑ Confirmation for the 17th Karmapa Thaye Dorje: Karmapa Charitable Trust recognized by the Supreme Court of India as the legal owner of the Rumtek Monastery (2004)
