- Tenzin Ösel Rinpoche
Tenzin Ösel Rinpoche (bo-tw|t=བསྟན་འཛིན་འོད་གསལ་|w=bstan 'dzin 'od gsal) was born in 1985 in
Bubion ,Granada , to Spanish parents who had been students of LamaThubten Yeshe . Fourteen months later the Dalai Lama concurred with suggestions to the effect that he was thetulku (i.e. Tibetan Buddhistreincarnation ) ofLama Yeshe .Biography
Born Osel Hita Torres, "Lama Ösel" is the son of Maria Torres and Francisco Hita; and the fifth of six siblings: Yeshe, Harmonia, Lobstang, and Dolma (all older); and (younger brother) KunKyen. As a teenager Lama Ösel studied both Western and traditional Tibetan subjects at
Sera Monastery in South India. However, in order to attain a western education, he studied atSt. Michaels University School , a private high school inVictoria, British Columbia to complete a grade-12 education. He has takenmonastic vows .Vicki Mackenzie wrote a book about Lama Yeshe and Lama Osel entitled "Reincarnation: The Boy Lama." Additional information about Lama Osel and other western tulkus can be found in her "Reborn in the West."References
*Vicki MacKenzie, "Reborn in the West", Harper Collins, 1997. ISBN 0-7225-3443-4
External links
* [http://www.fpmt.org/teachers/osel/ Biography]
* [http://www.quangduc.com/English/basic/lama-osel-taiwan.jpgPhoto of Lama Osel]
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