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Lama Thubten Yeshe was born in Tibet in 1935 not far from Lhasa in the town of Tölung Dechen. Two hours away by horse was the Chi-me Lung Gompa, home for about 100 nuns of the Gelug tradition.

It had been a few years since their learned abbess and guru had passed away when Nenung Pawo Rinpoche, a Kagyü lama widely famed for his psychic powers, came by their convent.

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They approached him and asked, "Where is our guru now?" He answered that in a nearby village there was a boy born at such and such a time, and if they investigated they would discover that he was their incarnated abbess.

Following his advice they found the young Lama Yeshe to whom they brought many offerings and gave the name Thondrub Dorje. Afterwards the nuns would often take the young boy back to their convent to attend the various ceremonies and other religious functions held there.

During these visits—which would sometimes last for days at a time—he often stayed in their shrine room and attended services w