The 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje is recognised by the vast majority of Karma Kagyu teachers, monastics, laypeople in Tibet and in exile.
Yet, despite the 17th Karmapa taking the hazardous risk of leaving in year 2000 the Karmapa’s main seat, Tsurphu Monastery, Tibet (where he was enthroned by the two main Karma Kagyu heart-son Rinpoches, and recognised by the Chinese government), he still has not been allowed to visit or teach at the seat of the 16th Karmapa, Rigpe Dorje at Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim.
No reasons or responses have been given for this by the Tibetan exile authorities, nor the Sikkim government. The patience of his hundreds of thousands of followers globally is wearing thin. They want the 17th Karmapa to visit Rumtek and Sikkim and take his rightful seat there. It is a fundamental human right for such an important religious and spritiual figure to have freedom of movement and to meet and teach his followers, as well as to perform the sacred and beneficial ‘black crown’ ceremony.
This petition is to gather support to request that the Sikkim government (and courts) announce the details of any ongoing court cases, restrictions and/or discussions with Indian Prime Minister Modi regarding the return of the 17th Karmapa to Sikkim. His followers and the people of Sikkim have the right to know when the 17th Karmapa will be allowed to return to Sikkim.
It has been over twenty four years since the 17th Karmapa bravely left his monastery, followers and family in Tibet to come to India to meet his teachers and followers abroad, so it is totally unacceptable that he still has not been allowed to return to Sikkim during that time.
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https://www.change.org/p/support-17th-karmapa-ogyen-trinley-dorje-s-return-to-sikkim?
