Responding to “Karmapa: The Politics of Reincarnation” by Lea Terhune (Wisdom Publications, 2004) Date: 20.05.2004 << Part 1 << Part 2 << Part 3 The Fate of Rumtek Monastery, the Seat of the Karmapas On August 2, 1993 , […]
In this legal manoeuvre, Gyaltsab Rinpoche tried to remove himself as defendant number three in the case filed by Karmapa Charitable Trust in July 1997. One of the arguments he used is that as head of Gyaltsab Labrang he was […]
Rumtek Monastery was established and developed by the late 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpai Dorje on a site measuring 74 acres offered to him by King Tashi Namgyal of Sikkim in 1962. His Holiness kept all religious Buddhist relics and […]
from the “Weekend Review” -by A STAFF REPORTER Gangtok/Kalimpong: Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche, the second in the hierarchy of the Karma Kagyu Lineage, has warned that if major articles of faith are missing from the Rumtek Dharma Chakra Centre (DCC), a theft case will be […]
– by a Staff Reporter Rumtek: At least four items have been found to be missing so far – and one of them given away to Ugyen Trinley Dorje – from the articles of faith belonging to the Karmapa at the Rumtek Dharma […]
Despite the illegal takeover of Rumtek Monastery by Situ Rinpoche and Gyaltsab Rinpoche and their followers during August 1993, the Karmapa Charitable Trust under the loyal leadership of Shamar Rimpoche succeeded to protect most of the precious religious objects of […]
The original article in the New York Times Dear Ms. Hilton, I have recently read your March 12th New York Times Magazine article about the flight of Ugyen Trinley from Tibet to Dharamsala. In it you have written about a very […]