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{{Person
|pagename=Khempo Yurmed Tinly
|MainNamePhon=Khempo Yurmed Tinly
|OtherNames=Khempo Yurmed Tinly Rinpoche
|PersonType=Khenpos; Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
|bio=Khempo  Yurmed  Tinly  Rinpoche  was  born  in 1950 in Kham, Eastern Tibet, and was recognized as  a  reincarnate  tulku  by  His  Holiness  Nyoshul Lungtok Tulku. He was one of the youngest members of a group of two thousand Tibetans who fled into exile. Tied to a horse, the young tulku was one of only  about  two  hundred  who  reached  safety. Khempo Rinpoche pursued his Buddhist studies at  Mindrolling,  Dzogchen,  Payul,  and  Tsopema monasteries  in  India  under  teachers  such  as Khochhen Rinpoche, Khenpo Tsondu Rinpoche, Khenpo  Rabgye  Rinpoche,  Zonong  Tulku  Rinpoche,  and  His  Holiness  Mindrolling  Trichen Rinpoche. At the age of twenty-five he received his  master’s  degree  from  Sanskrit  University  in Varanasi, the same year that His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche appointed him lecturer in charge of the university’s Nyingma studies program. Two years later he was awarded the degree of khenpo.  He later taught at the new Nyingmapa Institute in Gangtok, Sikkim, which he was instrumental in opening. In 1994, after several years as abbot of Gantay Monastery in Bhutan, Rinpoche came to America  at  the  suggestion  of  Professor  Robert Thurman and the request of Chagdud Tulku. A year later he founded Osel Dorje Nyingpo in the United States and worked to further world peace through  the  principles  of  Vajrayana  Buddhism and interfaith understanding. Soon thereafter he became abbot of Zilnon Kagyeling Monastery in Dharamsala, India, and in 2000 he was selected to represent the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism at the United Nations Millennium World Peace Summit. He passed away in January 2005 while visiting his family’s home in the Tibetan settlement  of  Kham  Khatok  near  Dehra  Dun  in North India.(Source : ''[[Portraits of Tibetan Buddhist Masters]]'', p. 66.)
|images=File:Khemp Yurmed Tinly.pdf
|yearbirth=1950
|yeardeath=2005
}}