The largest monastery in Sikkim, Rumtek Monastery is the seat of the Karmapa Lama, the third highest monk in Tibetan Buddhism. It also serves as one of the most important seats of the Kagyu (Black Hat ...
Travelogue: The secrets of the mystical Karmapas or the Black Hat Lamas of Rumtek Monastery, Gangtok
A short drive away from Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim, lies the mystical Rumtek Monastery, which is the seat of various relics of the ancient Buddhist world. I have come here before, especially for a ...
Rumtek Monastery was built in the 1960s by the 16th Karmapa Lama after being exiled from Tibet. With the help of Sikkim's royal family (remember, they were around until the 1970s), a large monastery ...
Gangtok, Aug. 27: The road to Rumtek, the nearest tourist and pilgrim spot from here, is hell and back. Come monsoons, the condition worsens so much that travelling to the picturesque town proves to ...
A Reserve Bank Of India team on Monday began taking inventory of the fabulous wealth of Rumtek monastery in Sikkim, the global headquarters of Karma Kagyu sect of Buddhism headed by a Karmapa, amid ...
GANGTOK/KOLKATA: Does anyone but 'Karmapa' Urgyen Trinley Dorjee has the right to touch the vajra mukut housed in the sacred Rumtek Monastery? gangtok/kolkata: does anyone but ''karmapa'' urgyen ...
Gangtok, Dec. 28: Responsibility for security of the famed Rumtek monastery and the Sikkim Raj Bhavan will soon be shifted from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to the Indo Tibetan Border ...
RUMTEK: Followers of the 17th Karmapa claimant Urgyen Thinley Dorjee have decided to prevent a RBI official from entering Rumtek monastery to make a court ordered inventory of its wealth. RUMTEK: ...
The largest monastery in Sikkim, Rumtek Monastery is the seat of the Karmapa Lama, the third highest monk in Tibetan Buddhism. It also serves as one of the most important seats of the Kagyu (Black Hat ...
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