Finally, in 1990 Tai Situ claimed to discover a letter left behind by the 16th Karmapa predicting the whereabouts of his successor. With this letter and an understanding that the Dalai Lama had gleaned from his enlightened meditation, a young boy was found in a herding family in the grasslands of Xikang and subsequently recognized as Ugyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa, by Tai Situ Rinpoche and Gyaltsab Rinpoche.
直到一九九○年，泰錫度宣稱發現了一封前法王留下的預示信，以及最受敬重的藏傳宗教領袖達賴喇嘛的禪坐啟示，而確定了尋找方向，終於在西康的一個游牧區找到了「烏金聽列多傑」，並經過泰錫度和嘉察的認證。