Tenzin Ösel Hita y Torres (born 1985 in Bubión, Granada, Spain) is a Spanish Tibetan Buddhist tulku and spiritual teacher.

(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.

[citation needed] However, he remained a follower of Tibetan Buddhism and an FPMT supporter, joining that organization's board of trustees in 2010.

As a child Ösel was heavily promoted by the FPMT, and made the subject of a book by Vicki Mackenzie, Reincarnation: The Boy Lama (Wisdom Publications, 1996).

[citation needed] At age 18, Hita gave up his monastic robes and distanced himself from the FPMT in favor of a more secular lifestyle, for example performing at the 2007 Burning Man festival.

Once he passed his ASATs in Canada, he moved to Switzerland and studied western philosophy, human rights, French and art.

"[1] Similar, but more pointed, remarks soon appeared in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo: Con 14 meses ya me habían reconocido y llevado a la India.

[citation needed] In November 2019, Hita showed his commitment to supporting the UK Daily Mirror's "Million Trees" Campaign, along with the 14th Dalai Lama and Hollywood legend Richard Gere.