NEPAL. Bodnath. Schechen monastery. Tulku Azom GYELSEY Rinpoche (16 ans), lors de ses examens. Il existe dans le monastère une université où les examens sont les mêmes que dans les monastères de même lignée.
The Tulkus, or reincarnated children.
Two or three years after their death, the big lamas are reincarnated into the body of a child.
The search for this child is based on the information left by the lama himself: dreams, visions, and intuition of the 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".