Karmapa

The government is trying to get Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje return to India from his US visit after repeated insistence of the Buddhist community. The 32 year-old Karmapa had gone to US in May 2017 and was expected to return last year only, but extended his stay. This is the longest period he has stayed abroad.

Tibetans look to India with great hope, 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje today said as he praised the country for giving Tibetans a home and protection.

A senior Tibetan lama at the centre of a long-running row over one of Buddhism's most important titles has abandoned the monkhood altogether after marrying a childhood friend in India, his office said Thursday.

It is up to the Dalai Lama to decide whether he will be reborn, Tibetan Buddhism's third highest religious leader has said, after Chinese officials repeatedly said the exiled Dalai Lama had no right to abandon reincarnation.

The 17th Karmapa, the third most important Tibetan religious head, on Tuesday reached Delhi after a fortnight-long religious tour of Germany, one his aides said.

The 26-year old who is the current embodiment of Karmapa Lama, a sacred role in Tibetan Buddhism, was implicated by the police in December 2011, following a seizure of $1.4 million from his monastery in Himachal Pradesh earlier in the year.

Tibetan religious head and the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje's name was today included in a chargesheet filed by the police in a Himachal Pradesh court on the seizure of foreign currency worth Rs.70 million (over $1 million) from a monastery in January.

The Karmapa Reception Committee and Joint Action Committee, a representation of 18 Buddhist organizations of Sikkim, today jointly welcomed the clean chit given to the XVIIth Karmapa Ogyen Trinley by the Centre.During a press conference in Gangtok, general secretary of the Karmapa Reception Committee K T Bhutia expressed their gratitude to Prime Mi...

China today denied that Karmapa, the head of the Tibetan Karma Kagyu sect, was its spy, and claimed that allegations against the country in this regard showed India's "mistrustful attitude" towards Beijing. (Read: Karmapa money trail: Cash came from Nepal)"The speculation by India's media, regarding the matter of the Karmapa as a Chinese agent or s...

Tibetan religious leader Karmapa might be subjected to a third round of grilling today in connection with the foreign currency worth over Rs 8 crore that was seized from the offices of a trust backed by it.Investigative agencies have found that the cash, that was in various currencies like Yuan, Hong Kong dollars, Euro and US dollars, came from Nep...

With the Karmapa money trail and its suspected links to China casting a shadow over the Tibetan religious leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama today came out in support of a "thorough investigation" into the incident.But the Tibetan spiritual head was cautious, claiming that the cash recovered from the Karmapa's accountant could have been a result o...

Police in Dharmshala today arrested a hotelier named K P Bhardawaj in connection with the Tibetan leader Karmapa's suspected plan to set up China-friendly institutions across the Himalayan region. The hotelier's arrest came after an amount of Rs 1 crore was recovered form a car a few days ago. The cops have arrested five people so far and raids are...

Indian security agencies have completed a round of questioning in Dharamshala of Tibetan leader Karmapa for his alleged Chinese links. A team of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Intelligence Bureau (IB) has also been sent from Delhi for a possible second round. The police in Dharmshala have arrested Karmapa's second accountant as well. The poli...

Ugin Thinley Dorjee, a revered Tibetan spiritual leader and the 17th karmapa, is likely to be questioned by Indian security agencies for operating as an agent of China in Himachal Pradesh.The karmapa, who heads the second-largest Buddhist sect in Tibet, now 27 years old, escaped from China to India ten years ago. Indian officials now suspect that e...

Huge amount of foreign currency was seized during raids at a transit home of 17th Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje at Sidhbari near Dharamsala on Thursday.ADGP (Law and Order), S R Mardi, said the exact amount of currency notes of different countries recovered during the raids at Gyuto Monastery will be known after counting them.A close aide of Karmapa,...

The government is trying to get Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje return to India from his US visit after repeated insistence of the Buddhist community. The 32 year-old Karmapa had gone to US in May 2017 and was expected to return last year only, but extended his stay. This is the longest period he has stayed abroad.

Tibetans look to India with great hope, 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje today said as he praised the country for giving Tibetans a home and protection.

A senior Tibetan lama at the centre of a long-running row over one of Buddhism's most important titles has abandoned the monkhood altogether after marrying a childhood friend in India, his office said Thursday.

It is up to the Dalai Lama to decide whether he will be reborn, Tibetan Buddhism's third highest religious leader has said, after Chinese officials repeatedly said the exiled Dalai Lama had no right to abandon reincarnation.

The 17th Karmapa, the third most important Tibetan religious head, on Tuesday reached Delhi after a fortnight-long religious tour of Germany, one his aides said.

The 26-year old who is the current embodiment of Karmapa Lama, a sacred role in Tibetan Buddhism, was implicated by the police in December 2011, following a seizure of $1.4 million from his monastery in Himachal Pradesh earlier in the year.

Tibetan religious head and the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje's name was today included in a chargesheet filed by the police in a Himachal Pradesh court on the seizure of foreign currency worth Rs.70 million (over $1 million) from a monastery in January.

The Karmapa Reception Committee and Joint Action Committee, a representation of 18 Buddhist organizations of Sikkim, today jointly welcomed the clean chit given to the XVIIth Karmapa Ogyen Trinley by the Centre.During a press conference in Gangtok, general secretary of the Karmapa Reception Committee K T Bhutia expressed their gratitude to Prime Mi...

China today denied that Karmapa, the head of the Tibetan Karma Kagyu sect, was its spy, and claimed that allegations against the country in this regard showed India's "mistrustful attitude" towards Beijing. (Read: Karmapa money trail: Cash came from Nepal)"The speculation by India's media, regarding the matter of the Karmapa as a Chinese agent or s...

Tibetan religious leader Karmapa might be subjected to a third round of grilling today in connection with the foreign currency worth over Rs 8 crore that was seized from the offices of a trust backed by it.Investigative agencies have found that the cash, that was in various currencies like Yuan, Hong Kong dollars, Euro and US dollars, came from Nep...

With the Karmapa money trail and its suspected links to China casting a shadow over the Tibetan religious leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama today came out in support of a "thorough investigation" into the incident.But the Tibetan spiritual head was cautious, claiming that the cash recovered from the Karmapa's accountant could have been a result o...

Police in Dharmshala today arrested a hotelier named K P Bhardawaj in connection with the Tibetan leader Karmapa's suspected plan to set up China-friendly institutions across the Himalayan region. The hotelier's arrest came after an amount of Rs 1 crore was recovered form a car a few days ago. The cops have arrested five people so far and raids are...

Indian security agencies have completed a round of questioning in Dharamshala of Tibetan leader Karmapa for his alleged Chinese links. A team of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Intelligence Bureau (IB) has also been sent from Delhi for a possible second round. The police in Dharmshala have arrested Karmapa's second accountant as well. The poli...

Ugin Thinley Dorjee, a revered Tibetan spiritual leader and the 17th karmapa, is likely to be questioned by Indian security agencies for operating as an agent of China in Himachal Pradesh.The karmapa, who heads the second-largest Buddhist sect in Tibet, now 27 years old, escaped from China to India ten years ago. Indian officials now suspect that e...

Huge amount of foreign currency was seized during raids at a transit home of 17th Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje at Sidhbari near Dharamsala on Thursday.ADGP (Law and Order), S R Mardi, said the exact amount of currency notes of different countries recovered during the raids at Gyuto Monastery will be known after counting them.A close aide of Karmapa,...