Mount Kailash / 067 The boy on the left, who lives in a temple at Lake Manasarovar,is a tulku, or a re-incarnated lama. As such he could, sometime in his late teens, begin a three-year-three-month-three-day meditation retreat and later head a temple or monastery. Just to see if he had been a great hatha-yogi in a past life, I tried to teach him a little yoga . . . next picture.