A Tulku is a "Living Buddha" and one way to find a living Buddha who has reincarnated is to place 20 items from his last incarnation within 500 similar objects that are not his from his previous incarnation. Only if that child remembers his past life well enough to choose "ONLY" those 20 items that were his before can he be chosen as a reincarnated Tulku "A Living Buddha".
So, part of the basis of choosing a real Tulku is having that Tulku remember his past lifetime clearly enough to find his 20 items at age 2 or 3 years of age when this process happens. When a tulku passes on he will tell his followers and other Tibetan Monks where and when he will be born again before he passes away. This makes it easier for them to find him again when he comes back to help mankind.
However, in India and Tibet and Nepal it is very common for children to take their parents to meet people they knew in their last lifetimes and to describe perfectly who they were before. This is very common there. They often know secrets that no one else could know from that lifetime.
But, in a culture that is very materialistic like ours in the U.S. these ways of thinking often are not valued. But, if we lived before isn't it useful to know what we were doing last time because it makes a difference in why we were born this time and what we are trying to do this time around?
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