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Rebuilding Tsurphu (1992-1999)Throughout Tibet and China, many monasteries were destroyed during 1959 and the Cultural Revolution. Tsurphu was no exception, suffering very heavily. This beautiful seat was completely destroyed and was left in total ruin in 1966. No inhabitants were able to remain there; after the destruction you could see from a distance only the the remnants of a mostly collapsed and ruined wall.
Upon the return of the Seventeenth Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the reconstruction was brought to a completely different level. Most of the original Tsurphu Monastery complex was restored and a new shedra, or monastic college, addition was built. Many devoted students and followers of the Kagyu lineage visited His Holiness Karmapa at Tsurphu and donated their services for the effort of rebuilding the original seat at Tsurphu Monastery. |
HH Gyalwa Karmapa
Detailed biographical information about His Holiness the 17th Karmapa is available from the drop down menus above. The materials are divided into: 17th Karmapa (His Holiness's current activities and schedule) Background (Kagyu history regarding predictions about the 17th Karmapa) In Tibet (His Holiness's early years, enthronement in Tibet and activity at Tsurphu Monastery) In India (The Karmapa's escape to India and activities in India) Reference (Official releases from the Kagyu Office and historical background documents referenced in other sections) When not traveling, His Holiness holds regular public audiences at his temporary camp at the Gyuto Ramoche Tantric University in Dharamsala, HP, India |
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In
early 1980, when the communist Chinese government
opened the Tibet-Nepal border for older
Tibetans to visit family and relatives,
His Holiness the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa
instructed Venerable Drupon Dechen Rinpoche
to go back to Tibet to reconstruct the original
seat, Tsurphu Monastery. Reconstruction
of Tsurphu was extremely difficult because
Tibetan people were very poor and any support
they could provide was very limited. However,
through the tireless effort of Drupon Dechen
Rinpoche and the devotion and dedication
of the Tibetan people, many aspects this
large complex was rebuilt. After many years
of hard work and dedication they completed
the partial rebuilding of the main shrine
and some of the other parts of the development. 
