Khempo Yurmed Tinly
Yurmed Tinly, Khempo
| PersonType | Category:Khenpos Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers |
|---|---|
| MainNamePhon | Khempo Yurmed Tinly |
| 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.) |
| YearBirth | 1950 |
| YearDeath | 2005 |
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