Studieren geht über reinkarnieren: Der 24jährige Osel Hita Torres möchte nicht der Lama Tenzin Osel Rinpoche sein!

Jungle World, 4.6.09:
Wenn ein Lama stirbt, begibt er sich umge­hend auf die Suche nach einem Säug­ling oder Klein­kind, in dem er reinkar­nie­ren kann. Mön­che legen dem Kind Gegen­stände aus dem Besitz des Lama und ähnlich aus­se­hende, neue Gerät­schaf­ten vor. Wählt es die alten Gegen­stände aus, gilt es als der neue Lama.

Lama Osel 1985

Dass ein Aus­er­wähl­ter sich der Reinkar­na­tion ver­wei­gert, ist nicht vor­ge­se­hen. Doch der 24jährige Osel Hita Tor­res möchte nicht der Lama Ten­zin Osel Rin­po­che sein, nur weil er im zar­ten Alter von 14 Mona­ten nach bestimm­ten Gegen­stän­den gegrabscht hat und der Dalai Lama in ihm die Reinkar­na­tion erkannte. Zwar hat das Leben als Lama seine Vor­züge, man wird bedient und ange­be­tet. Doch wird erwar­tet, dass man auf Sex und andere welt­li­che Ver­gnü­gun­gen ver­zich­tet. Tor­res zieht ein Stu­dium in Madrid vor. »Ich lebte in einer Lüge«, sagte er. »Sie haben mich von mei­ner Fami­lie fort­ge­bracht und mich in mit­tel­al­ter­li­chen Ver­hält­nis­sen fest­ge­hal­ten, wo ich sehr gelit­ten habe.« Die Foun­da­tion to Pre­serve the Maha­yana Tra­di­tion, deren Lama er sein sollte, hat nun ein Pro­blem, des­sen Lösung wohl eif­ri­ges Medi­tie­ren erfor­dern wird. Vor­erst wur­den alle Tor­res betref­fen­den Infor­ma­tio­nen von der Web­seite der Foun­da­tion entfernt.

Das seit Jahr­hun­der­ten prak­ti­zierte Ver­fah­ren der Suche nach Reinkar­nier­ten ver­hin­dert die Ent­ste­hung von kle­ri­ka­len Dynas­tien. Die Aus­wahl obliegt dem Zufall oder den Mani­pu­la­tio­nen der Mön­che, in man­chen Fäl­len auch den Wün­schen welt­li­cher Macht­ha­ber. Für gewöhn­lich reinkar­nie­ren tibe­ti­sche Lamas nicht außer­halb der Gren­zen Tibets. Da die chi­ne­si­sche Regie­rung mit Hilfe regime­treuer Geist­li­cher bereits einen ihr pas­sen­den Pan­chen Lama gefun­den hat, befürch­tet der Dalai Lama wohl ähnli­che Mani­pu­la­tio­nen nach sei­nem Tod. Eine Glo­ba­li­sie­rung der Reinkar­na­tion ist daher uner­läss­lich, um die Unab­hän­gig­keit der Geist­lich­keit zu wah­ren. Pech nur, dass der offen­bar als Prä­ze­denz­fall aus­er­ko­rene Tor­res andere Pläne hat. Von Jörn Schulz

Osel heute

Als Klä­rung zum obi­gen Arti­kel hier ein Schrei­ben von Osel über sein heu­ti­ges Leben:

The per­son reco­gnized as the incar­na­tion of FPMT’s foun­der, Lama Thub­ten Yeshe, was in his early life known as Lama Osel. Today he pre­fers to be cal­led sim­ply “Osel”. Osel is com­ple­ting a course of Wes­tern stu­dies in Europe, at which he is doing extre­mely well. The fol­lo­wing is a cur­rent mes­sage from Osel;

June 2009

Dear Fri­ends,

It is import­ant to have a good expe­ri­ence of what life is. I have been really lucky to be able to expe­ri­ence both wes­tern and eas­tern cul­tures and I am so gra­te­ful to ever­yone who has hel­ped me in both cul­tures.  In com­bi­na­tion, being in India and the West has been a rich expe­ri­ence that I’ve been pri­vi­le­ged to absorb from both sides.

There were times in India when it was hard to accept the destiny. Being trea­ted dif­fer­ently, and fee­ling apart. But that expe­ri­ence was really good and I so app­re­ciate it.

Howe­ver, cer­tain media find ways to sen­sa­tio­na­lize and exag­ge­rate an unusual story. So I hope that what appears in news print is not read and taken too lite­r­ally. Don’t believe ever­y­thing that is written!

Expe­ri­ence shows that howe­ver hard one tries in inter­views to sin­ce­rely and honestly con­vey key infor­ma­tion, the prin­ted result can tend towards sen­sa­tio­na­lism to get the most attention.

FPMT is doing a great job and Lama Zopa is an immen­sely spe­cial per­son — very inspi­ring and a great yogi.

Per­so­nally, my job is to find new ways in which to dis­co­ver the true nature of our being. There is no sepa­ra­tion bet­ween mys­elf and FPMT — we are all working toge­ther in so many aspects and ter­rains. Huma­nity is our office. Besi­des, I don’t really qua­lify very much in Bud­dhist stu­dies, because I didn’t finish them, so working toge­ther is the clue.

So I’m try­ing to find a dif­fe­rent way for this future gene­ra­tion. One of the ways is through music, movies and audio-visual tech­ni­ques. In a movie you can con­dense so many dif­fe­rent sto­ries. You can put in music, you can put in dif­fe­rent situa­ti­ons and mes­sa­ges. Even just the sun­set can be enough to give you peace to find a moment of medi­ta­tion in your­self. There are so many dif­fe­rent mil­li­ons of pos­si­bi­li­ties in movies.

And not just movies, but docu­men­ta­ries actually going some­where and inter­view­ing people who may have reached a level on their path where they are at peace with them­sel­ves, and so much more.…!!!

That’s kind of what I’m plan­ning to do. But it is one thing is to plan and ano­ther for things to actually hap­pen. So we’re back to men­tal pro­jec­tions. But for now, that’s what I am hoping to do.

Big Love

Osel

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  1. Dear Osel,

    thank you for your going your own way (as Frank Sina­tra sang — I did it my way!!! ;) ).….….;)
    Don’t we all ought to go and find “my way”?
    The life and words of pre­cious Lama Yeshe Rin­po­che are a big sup­port for me and I think many others as well.
    And — he did it “my way” !!!! ;) ;) ;) !!!

    May all your plans be “hap­pe­ning”.….!!!
    Thank you,

    Anne H.

  2. Dear Ösel Ten­zin,
    when we tra­vel­led from Italy to Swiss we met you for a moment at the monas­tery of Mt. Pel­le­rin. It must be around 1991 or simi­larly. You were crying in one room because of some fewer . Later you gave me little bit of juice in almost empty plas­tic bottle. It was very sym­bo­li­caly…
    Later we met you again for few moments at Meri­gar, at the Teachings of the XIV. Dalai Lama, con­se­cra­ting the Shang-Shung insti­tute. At the old stupa I offe­red you little bit of torma that was pre­sen­ted at the cere­mony…
    We did not fol­low your spi­ri­tual deve­lop­ment in last 10 years or even more. While returning from 9th Atiyoga Dzogpa chenpo retreat at the Adria­tic sea in Croa­tia now in June 2009 — arti­cle publis­hed about you in Slove­nian news­pa­per appeared on our way to Atiyoga Ling in Aus­tria.
    We think you are doing right by having plans to make movies, docu­men­ta­ries and audio visual teachings. Buddha*s teachings are tim­e­l­ess and can be expres­sed in many­fold com­pas­sio­nate ways like the rays of the Sun … Our moti­va­tion is to bene­fit beings through Visual Dharmas-Buddhist teachings for 3rd mil­le­nium.
    May you always expe­ri­ence men­tal peace, joy, hap­pi­ness and true wis­dom.
    And may you bene­fit beings through inno­va­tive Dharma teachings. )):

    Yours in the Dharma:
    Tara Tulku Dri­med Drolk­har Rin­po­che
    Bud­dha Dharma-OBF Inter­na­tio­nal June 14,2009
    BuddhaDharma.​OBFInternational@​gmail.​com