NEPAL Bodnath. Ha Nying Shedrup Ling Monastery. Tulku Khentsy YANGSI Rinpoche (aged 2 and a half) has just been discovered to be a Tulku but has not yet been proclamed. He will go to the Schechen Monastery when he is older. He plays with a tambourine and some cymbals which are used for prayers (known as Pujas).

Two or three years after their death, important lamas are reincarnated in the body of a child. The search for this child is based on the information left by the lama himself: dreams, visions and the intuition of other lamas. The Tulkus are discovered at 3 or 4 years of age, declared at about 4 or 5 and then enter the monastery at the age of 6.
According to the rules of the monastery, each Tulku is instructed by a tutor and is either prevented or restricted from seeing other young monks from its age group. All the Tulkus are called Rinpoche which means "the precious one".