Tenzin Ösel Hita was born in 1985, in the village of Bubión at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, southeast of Granada, Spain. When he was 14 months old he was recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of Lama Thubten Yeshe, the founder of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT). He is one of only a handful of non-Tibetans formally recognized as the reincarnation of a Tibetan master. In 1991, at the age of six, Ösel entered Sera Je Monastic University in South India, where he lived and studied to age 18. Ösel left monastic life to explore modern ways of life and thinking.

Ösel continued his education graduating from high school in Canada. After Canada, Ösel attended college in Switzerland studying western philosophy, human rights, French language and art.

Ösel apprenticed under Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Matteo Passigato in Bologna, Italy, for two years. Then, Ösel moved back to Spain to study film. He spent two years at the NIC school in Madrid getting his director of cinema diploma followed by another year for director of photography. After that he did a Masters in Documentary Films at EIMA, International School for Audio Visual Media which took one more year.

In 2012, Ösel and Matteo co-directed his first short film, Being Your True Nature, filmed during the 2011 FPMT Universal Wisdom Education gathering in the south of France.

Being Your True Nature introduces a new form of education pioneered by Lama Yeshe — “Universal Wisdom Education”. The purpose is to help modern people access ancient psychological tools to help them lead happier, more meaningful lives — “the language that speaks to universal human experience at its simplest and most profound,” says Ösel.

Ösel speaks fluent Tibetan, English, and Spanish and is learning Portuguese as his son is part Brazilian. Ösel currently calls Valencia in Spain his home and has lived in India, Nepal, Canada, Switzerland, Brazil, and Santa Cruz and Hawaii in the USA.

For more information about Tenzin Ösel Hita and his projects visit his website — One Big Love.