At only 14 months, Osel Hita Torres was taken from his family to possibly become the next Dalai Lama.  Chosen by the current Dalai Lama, there were high hopes for Osel Hita Torres, but it seems that those hopes are now shattered.

Osel Hita Torres (b. 1985) was designated soon after his birth as the reincarnation of Lama Thubten Yeshe, and renamed Tenzin Ösel Rinpoche (or "Lama Ösel"). A Spaniard from Bubion, Granada, Hita has received media attention as one of a handful of Western tulkus of Tibetan lamas.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

It looks like Religion has once again proven its ineptness.  After such tradition and so much work, the keen eye of Buddhism was blind to the obvious ... it is only a matter of time before taking children away from their birth parents will bite them in the ass.

As a toddler, he was put on a throne and worshipped by monks who treated him like a god. But the boy chosen by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnation of a spiritual leader has caused consternation – and some embarrassment – for Tibetan Buddhists by turning his back on the order that had such high hopes for him.

Instead of leading a monastic life, Osel Hita Torres now sports baggy trousers and long hair, and is more likely to quote Jimi Hendrix than Buddha.

Source: Guardian

Osel Hita Torres, now 24 years of age, currently studies in Madrid.  He has been deprived of many of the basic childhood pleasures such as even witnessing a kiss.  At his first club he recalls, "I was amazed to watch everyone dance. What were all...

At only 14 months, Osel Hita Torres was taken from his family to possibly become the next Dalai Lama.  Chosen by the current Dalai Lama, there were high hopes for Osel Hita Torres, but it seems that those hopes are now shattered.

Osel Hita Torres (b. 1985) was designated soon after his birth as the reincarnation of Lama Thubten Yeshe, and renamed Tenzin Ösel Rinpoche (or "Lama Ösel"). A Spaniard from Bubion, Granada, Hita has received media attention as one of a handful of Western tulkus of Tibetan lamas.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

It looks like Religion has once again proven its ineptness.  After such tradition and so much work, the keen eye of Buddhism was blind to the obvious ... it is only a matter of time before taking children away from their birth parents will bite them in the ass.

As a toddler, he was put on a throne and worshipped by monks who treated him like a god. But the boy chosen by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnation of a spiritual leader has caused consternation – and some embarrassment – for Tibetan Buddhists by turning his back on the order that had such high hopes for him.

Instead of leading a monastic life, Osel Hita Torres now sports baggy trousers and long hair, and is more likely to quote Jimi Hendrix than Buddha.

Source: Guardian

Osel Hita Torres, now 24 years of age, currently studies in Madrid.  He has been deprived of many of the basic childhood pleasures such as even witnessing a kiss.  At his first club he recalls, "I was amazed to watch everyone dance. What were all those people doing, bouncing, stuck to one another, enclosed in a box full of smoke?" [source].  Osel Hita Torres has now officially denounced the Buddhist order.

"They took me away from my family and stuck me in a medieval situation in which I suffered a great deal," said Torres, 24, describing how he was whisked from obscurity in Granada to a monastery in southern India. "It was like living a lie," he told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. Despite his rebelliousness, he is still known as Lama Tenzin Osel Rinpoche and revered by the Buddhist community. A prayer for his "long life" still adorns the website of the Foundation to Preserve the Mahayana Tradition, which has 130 centres around the world. The website features a biography of the renegade guru that gushes about his peaceful, meditative countenance as a baby. In Tibetan Buddhism, a lama is one of a lineage of reincarnated spiritual leaders, the most famous of which is the Dalai Lama.

Source: Guardian

In reality, though, religion is a funny thing.  It is highly possible that over time Osel may return to the order of Buddhism, fulfilling his 'destiny'.  Of course, in today's society of information and technology, it is more likely that this is the end of Buddhism for Osel.