INDIA. Region of Bangal. Darjeeling. Sonada Monastery. Young Kalou Rimpotche (2 1/2 years old) with his mother who is Bhutanese and from a family of diplomats, She speaks fluent English and French. They now reside in the Sonada Monastery which was the former home of the Kalou Rimpotche after he had escaped from Tibet, He died in 1989. The little boy is the reincarnation of Kalou Rimpotche. 1993.