Rumtek Monastery
Rumtek ( Tibetan: རུམ་ཐེག་དགོན་པ་, Wylie: Rum - theg Dgon -pa), also called Dharma Chakra Centre, 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 golden stupa contains the remains of the 16th Karmapa.
History
The first monastery in Rumtek was built by the 9th Karmapa. It served as a monastery of the Karma Kagyu lineage, but fell with time to a ruin. 1959 fled the 16th Karmapa Rangjung Dorje Rigpe, with an entourage of more than 160 lamas, monks and lay people of Tibet through Bhutan to Sikkim to save the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism from destruction. He chose as his new Rumtek seat and built the new monastery, and built above the old monastery, the new Rumtek monastery, from which also the image is. 1966 consecrated the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, a new monastery. Above the monastery, the building of a monastic university was built ( Shri Nalanda Institute) in the 1990s. This building was severely damaged by the 2011 earthquake.
Rumtek is since the 1990s in the center of the Karmapa conflict between two rival groups, each prefer a different candidate for the 17th Karmapa: Karmapa Thaye Dorje and Charitable Trust for the group Tsurphu Labrang for Ogyen Trinley Dorje. For Rumtek it was about time to time to the claim to the land of the monastery. This question - but not the successor - was decided by the competent Indian courts in favor of the Karmapa Charitable Trust 2004.
Miscellaneous
Compared to the actual monastery, Karma Shri Nalanda Institute of Buddhist Studies is located.