Police in India have filed charges against the Karmapa Lama after about $1.4m (£900,000) in cash was found in January at his monastery in Dharamsala.
They allege the cash was being held in violation of foreign exchange rules.
The Karmapa heads one of the four sects of Tibetan Buddhism and is expected to play a prominent spiritual role in the event of the death of the Dalai Lama.
The Karmapa is seen as the third most important figure in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama.
He fled Tibet in 1999 and arrived in Dharamsala - in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh - which is the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
