Sikyong Penpa Tsering Hints at Possible Return of Karmapa to India

Sikyong Penpa Tsering, President of the Central Tibetan Administration, indicated that 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorjee could return to India soon, pending favourable developments in a legal case. Sikyong, addressing Tibetans in Sikkim, noted that recent proceedings in Himachal Pradesh's High Court involving the Enforcement Directorate may ease the Karmapa’s path to return. The Karmapa, who fled Tibet in 2000, has been in the United States. since 2017. His potential return to Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim's influential Black Hat sect center, is highly anticipated, despite past controversies and competing claims to the Karmapa title.