↑(en) Nik Douglas, Meryl White, Karmapa: The Black Hat Lama of Tibet, 1976, p. 143-144 : « The twelfth Shamar Tulku, TINLAY KUNCHAP, was born on the first day of the first month of the male iron tiger year (1948). He was recognised by the sixteenth Karmapa and installed at the Tsurphu monastery. He passed away at the age of one year and two months. (1948-1950). »