Rumtek Monastery

Rumtek Monastery, also called the Dharma Chakra Centre, is a gompa located in the state of near the capital . It is the seat in exile of the Gyalwang Karmapa, inaugurated in 1966 by the 16th Karmapa.
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Description: building in India
  • Also known as: “Dharmachakra Centre” and “long de si”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ranipool and Pakyong.

Suburb
is a small suburban town located in the bank of river Ranikhola at the junction of National Highway 10 and National Highway 717A in of the state of . is situated 3 km east of Rumtek Monastery.

Town
is a Municipal city and district headquarters of in the Indian state of , located in the foothills of the . is the only airport of . The "National Research Centre for Orchids" is also located here. is situated 6 km southeast of Rumtek Monastery.

Photo: Sujay25, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a bustling, friendly hill station, and the capital of the Himalayan state of . The name 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.

Rumtek Monastery

Latitude
27.28875° or 27° 17′ 20″ north
Longitude
88.56136° or 88° 33′ 41″ east
Open location code
7MVC7HQ6+GG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 452322822
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Wiki­data ID
Q1546234
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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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