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Sogyal Rinpoche (Tibetan: བསོད་རྒྱལ་, Wylie: Bsod-rgyal; 1947 – 28 August 2019) was a Tibetan Dzogchen lama. He was recognized as the incarnation of a Tibetan master and visionary saint of the 19th century, Tertön Sogyal Lerab Lingpa.
Aug 28, 2019 · Sogyal Lakar, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher accused of widespread physical and sexual abuse, has died aged 72. Lakar, better known as Sogyal Rinpoche, sold millions of books and was widely seen as...
Sep 1, 2019 · Sogyal Rinpoche, a charismatic Tibetan Buddhist teacher and best-selling author who abruptly retired after several of his students accused him of multiple acts of sexual, physical and emotional...
The official website of Sogyal Rinpoche, a world-renowned Buddhist teacher from Tibet, and author of the highly acclaimed The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.
Sogyal Rinpoche teaching in Lerab Ling. Sogyal Rinpoche (Tib. བསོད་རྒྱལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wyl. bsod rgyal rin po che) (1947-2019 [1]) was born into the Lakar family in Kham in Eastern Tibet, and was recognized as the incarnation of Lerab Lingpa Tertön Sogyal, a teacher to the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, by Jamyang ...
Sogyal Rinpoche was born in 1947 into the Lakar family of the Trehor region of Kham, east Tibet. Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö recognized him as the incarnation of Tertön Sogyal and supervised his education at Dzongsar Monastery.
Aug 28, 2019 · The influential and controversial Tibetan Buddhist teacher Sogyal Rinpoche died on Wednesday at a hospital in Thailand. He was 72. Born Sogyal Lakar in Kham, Tibet, he was best known as the author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.
An inspirational and charismatic figure, Sogyal Rinpoche was known for the way he would connect personally and directly with his audience, challenge people’s assumptions and habits and teach in response to the needs of the moment.
Sogyal Rinpoche is the author of the highly acclaimed The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying and the founder of Rigpa, an international network of Buddhist centres and groups. He also founded two retreat centres— Lerab Ling in France and Dzogchen Beara in Ireland.
Biography: Born in Kham in Eastern Tibet, Sogyal Rinpoche was recognized as the incarnation of Lerab Lingpa Tertön Sogyal, a teacher to the thirteenth Dalai Lama, by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, one of the most outstanding masters of the twentieth century. Jamyang Khyentse supervised Rinpoche's training and raised him like his own son.
