Martine FRANCK continues her series on exceptional children,the young Lamas considered to be reincarnations of deceased monks.

Her latest reportage is about Deshung Rinpoche ,a 6 year old American boy,believed to be the reincarnation of Tibetan Buddhist monk Lama Deshung Rinpoche III,who died in 1987 and at the age of 81 told his followers that he would be reincarnated in Seattle.
When Sonam Wangdu,the Seattle -born son of an American woman and her Tibetan husband,was two,he was enthroned as the fourth incarnation of the Lama and was given the name Deshung Rinpoche III. The little Lama's...