as the 'Delhi Karmapa', due to his having the support of the government of India. Beru Khyentse Rinpoche holds a distinctly minority view, believing both Karmapas are legitimate. He states, "It is possible that there can be two Karmapas in order to benefit sentient beings because the Karmapa can manifest in many different forms," and writes that the 14th Karmapa highlighted that "in many universes a hundred million Karmapas have manifested. The Karmapa is also the Buddha's emanation, thus until all the thousand Buddhas have come and their doctrine is not diminishing, my activity of the Karmapa emanations will not end." Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche said that, "As far as my father (Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche) was concerned, they were both to be respected and perceived with pure appreciation." Recent developments Court battle over Rumtek Monastery in 1998 Control of Rumtek Monastery, which was the seat of the 16th Karmapa in exile, has been the subject of a legal contest filed in 1998 "by the Karmapa Charitable Trust, [and the plaintiffs] Shri T.S. Gyaltshen, Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche, and Shri Gyan Jyoti Kansakar against the State of Sikkim, the Secretary of Ecclessiastical Affairs and Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche. The plaintiffs seek to evict the monks and other occupants of Dhama Chakra Centre, Rumtek and to possess and administer the monastery for their own purposes." Previously, in 1982, Shamar Rinpoche and his cousin, Topga Yugyal, gained control of the estate at Rumtek monastery a month after the 16th Karmapa's passing. Three monasteries in Bhutan were sold, and control was gained over the Karmapa Charitable Trust, organized in 1961 by the 16th Karmapa. Disagreements over the Shamarpa's and Topga's financial dealings began in 1988. Ogyen Trinley Dorje's followers maintain that the trust was established solely for the sake of seeing to the welfare of the Karmapa's followers, providing funds for the maintenance of the monastery, and for the monks' medical fees. The administration of the monastery was the responsibility of the Tsurphu Labrang, which was organized as a legal entity for a related case: The Indian Supreme Court was considering a motion made to join Tsurphu Labrang with the defendants in order to speed the process, but the motion was denied. The case by plaintiffs Shamar Rinpoche, et al., remains on the docket of the District Court. Ogyen Trinley escapes Tibet in 1999 In late 1999, fourteen-year-old Ogyen Trinley Dorje decided that the restrictions placed on