THE MONASTERIES AND MAIN-SEATS OF HIS HOLINESS THE KARMAPA

RUMTEK MONASTERY IN SIKKIM/INDIA

Dharma Chakra Centre or Rumtek Monastery is one of the most important seats of the Kagyu lineage outside Tibet. In the early 1960's, His Holiness the Sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa, founded this seat.

The Centre has become the International Kagyu Headquarters during the life of His Holiness, and was the place from which lineage activities have manifested throughout the world. Here, the younger generation of Kagyu masters are being trained in the traditional study and meditation practices which have continuously been taught and practiced for the last 800 years.

http://www.rumtek.org/

TSURPHU-MONASTERY IN CENTRAL-TIBET

Tsurphu is the most important monastery of the Karma Kagyu lineage. It has been the main seat for the Karma Kagyu lineage and residence of all the successive reincarnations of the Gyalwang Karmapas since the inception of that line through the present. Thus Tsurphu is a very special place for the followers of the Kagyu lineage.

http://www.tsurphu.org/