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Karma Thinley Rinpoche was born in Nangchen, Kham, in Qinghai in 1931.
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He is also well regarded by Tibetans as a scholar, poet and artist. At age two, he was recognized as a reincarnation of Beru Shaiyak Lama Kunrik. Eventually, he settled for a period at Tsurphu Monastery, traditional seat of the Karmapa.
The 16th Karmapa recognized Rinpoche as a tulku of Karma Thinleypa.
Karma Thinley Rinpoche left Tibet for India in 1959 and during the 1960s was abbot of the Young Lamas Home School and Karma Drubgyu Thargay Ling nunnery both founded by Freda Bedi in Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh. There he was one of the first Tibetan refugee Lamas to teach western students. In 1982, Karma Tinley Rinpoche was able to visit his homeland Nangchen for the first time since leaving a quarter of a century earlier.
Returning several times since then he has established a temple in Shorda, capital of Nangchen District and a school for nomad children in the Sangshung valley. In 1988, he also established a nunnery, Tekchen Lekshay Ling, at Boudhanath Nepal and subsequently a small meditation retreat center at Pharping.
