NEPAL. Bodnath. Sakye Temple. Deshung Rinpoche , 6 years old American boy, believed to be the reincarnation of Tibetan Buddhist monk Lama Deshung Rinpoche III, who died in 1987. Seattle born ,son of an American woman and her Tibetan husband, now deceased. He lived in the USA until the age of 4 and is now being educated in Nepal. His mother visits him regularly.
He already speaks and reads fluently in Tibetan. With his mother, in 1996, who comes from the USA to visit her son.
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".