Tenzin Ösel Rinpoche

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Tenzin Ösel Rinpoche (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་འོད་གསལ་; Wylie: bstan 'dzin 'od gsal) was born in 1985 in Bubion, Granada, to Spanish parents who had been students of Lama Thubten Yeshe. Fourteen months later the Dalai Lama confirmed suggestions to the effect that he was the tulku (reincarnation) of Lama Yeshe. Tenzin Ösel should not be confused with Ösel Tendzin, another influential Western lama.

Born Osel Hita Torres, "Lama Ösel" is the son of Maria Torres and Francisco Hita; and the fifth of six siblings: Yeshe, Harmonia, Lobstang, and Dolma (all older); and (younger brother) KunKyen. As a teenager Lama Ösel studied both Western and traditional Tibetan subjects at Sera Monastery in South India. However, in order to attain a western education, he studied at St. Michaels University School, a private high school in Victoria, British Columbia to complete a grade 12 education. He has taken monastic vows.

Lama Ösel remains active in Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, the organization founded by his prior incarnation.

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