Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Gangtok in Sikkim, calling on the government to relax its restrictions on travel to Sikkim for the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorjee to enable him to visit Rumtek Monastery. Rumtek Monastery is the seat of the Karmapa lineage in India and the Karmapa is head of Karma Kagyu or black hat tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.