Rumtek Monastery
Rumtek Monastery, also called the Dharma Chakra Centre, is a gompa located in the Indian state of Sikkim near the capital Gangtok. It is the seat in exile of the Gyalwang Karmapa, inaugurated in 1966 by the 16th Karmapa.Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Monastery
- Description: building in India
- Also known as: “Dharmachakra Centre” and “long de si”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Paljor Stadium and Namgyal Institute of Tibetology.
Paljor Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Prajakta, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Paljor Stadium is a football stadium located in Gangtok, Sikkim, India. It can host 30,000 spectators. Besides earlier hosting the I-League and the I-League 2, the stadium also hosts matches of various local divisions and tournaments. Paljor Stadium is situated 1 km east of Rumtek Monastery.
Namgyal Institute of Tibetology
Museum
Photo: Subhrajyoti07, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Namgyal Institute of Tibetology is a Tibet museum in Gangtok, Sikkim, India, named after the 11th Chogyal of Sikkim, Sir Tashi Namgyal. The institute employs researchers and one of its new research programs is a project which seeks to document the social history of Sikkim's approximated 60 monasteries and record this on a computer. Namgyal Institute of Tibetology is situated 2 km south of Rumtek Monastery.
Do-drul Chorten
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Do-drul Chorten is a stupa in Gangtok in the Indian state of Sikkim. Inside this stupa is a complete set of Dorjee Phurba, Kangyur and other religious objects. Do-drul Chorten is situated 2 km south of Rumtek Monastery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gangtok and Ranipool.
Gangtok
Photo: Sujay25, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gangtok is a bustling, friendly hill station, and the capital of the Himalayan state of Sikkim. The name Gangtok is derived from the Tibetan word for 'hillside,' and the city has a population of around 100,000 being a mixture of indigenous Sikkimese and people of Nepalese and Tibetan ancestry.
Ranipool
Suburb
Ranipool is a small suburban town located in the bank of river Ranikhola at the junction of National Highway 10 and National Highway 717A in Gangtok District of the Indian state of Sikkim. Ranipool is situated 4½ km south of Rumtek Monastery.
Pakyong
Town
Pakyong is a Municipal city and district headquarters of Pakyong district in the Indian state of Sikkim, located in the foothills of the Himalayas. Pakyong Airport is the only airport of Sikkim. The "National Research Centre for Orchids" is also located here. Pakyong is situated 10 km south of Rumtek Monastery.
Rumtek Monastery
- Categories: vihara, Tibetan Buddhist monastery, and religion
- Location: Gangtok, East Sikkim, Sikkim, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Welsh—“Rumtek Monastery” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “রুমটেক মঠ”
- Bengali: “རུམ་ཐེག་དགོན་པ་”
- Chinese: “荣定寺”
- Chinese: “隆德寺”
- Dutch: “Rumtek”
- Dutch: “Rumtekklooster”
- French: “monastère de Rumtek”
- French: “Monastère de Rumtek”
- French: “Rumtek”
- German: “Rumtek”
- Gujarati: “રુમટેક બૌદ્ધ મઠ”
- Hindi: “रुमटेक मठ”
- Indonesian: “Wihara Rumtek”
- Italian: “Monastero di Rumtek”
- Japanese: “ルムテク僧院”
- Nepali: “रुम्टेक गुम्बा”
- Polish: “Rumtek”
- Russian: “Румтек”
- Tamil: “ரும்டெக் மடம்”
- Tibetan: “རུམ་བཏེགས་དགོན་པ།”
- Tibetan: “རུམ་བཏེགས་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་འོད་སྟོང་འཁྱིལ་བའི་གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་།”
- Ukrainian: “Монастир Румтек”
- Ukrainian: “Румтек”
- Urdu: “رومٹیک خانقاہ”
- Welsh: “Rumtek”
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