Rumtek Newsletter

Court case • KCT legal challenge & victory • How the controversy arose • News paper articles • Dharma centers in the world • History of Rumtek • Future activities • Q & APress release

   News paper articles

A news paper article from a local daily in Sikkim called "NOW", July 2004
SC verdict gives karmapa trust reason to celebrate...
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A news paper article from Gangtok about Shamar Rinpoche, Nov. 2003
Shamar Rinpoche is very important to our lineage : Orgyen Trinley...
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    News

July 05th 04
Indian Supreme Court Awards Rumtek to Karmapa Charitable Trust
From the IKKBO News Service. New Delhi Today, India’s highest court decided that the Karmapa Charitable Trust is the sole authority over Rumtek Monastery.
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May 13th 04
Karmapa Charitable Trust:
Press Release

In July 1997, The Karmapa Charitable Trust, the legal body given responsibility for Rumtek Monastery by H.H. the 16th Karmapa, filed a lawsuit against Tai Situ Rinpoche and Gyaltsab Rinpoche. The Karmapa Charitable Trust sought justice in the courts after Rumtek Monastery was violently taken over by Situ Rinpoche and Gyaltsab Rinpoche on August 2nd 1993.
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August 26th 03
High Court of Sikkim

On that day the Chief Justice R.K. Patra and Judge N. Surjamani Singh delivered judgement on the writ petition No. 5 of 2003 submitted by the socalled Tshurphu Labrang.
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