Tenzin Ösel Hita

Tenzin Ösel Hita y Torres (born 1985 in Bubión, Granada, Spain) is a Spanish Tibetan Buddhist tulku and spiritual teacher. Born Ösel Hita Torres to María Torres and Francisco Hita, he was designated soon after his birth as the tulku or reincarnation of Thubten Yeshe — making him one of only a handful of Western tulkus — and renamed Tenzin Ösel. (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་འོད་གསལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།)

For many years, Hita was expected to succeed to leadership of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), the organization co-founded by Yeshe. As a university student, "Oz" (as he came to be known) gradually distanced himself from the FPMT, and in 2009 made media statements indicating his intention to pursue a life independent of that organization. However, he remained a follower of Tibetan Buddhism and an FPMT supporter, joining that organization's board of trustees in 2010.