Ngawang Tenzin Choekyi Lodoe Rabsel, a Tibetan boy born in Nepal, has been recognised by the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of one of his teachers and former head of Nyingma, the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The previous Trulshik Rinpoche was born in Lho Talung, Tibet in 1923. Later, in exile, he established Nepal’s largest monastery, Thupten Choling. He died in July 2011.