Sogyal Rinpoche is a world-renowned Buddhist teacher from
Tibet and the author of the highly acclaimed The Tibetan
Book of Living and Dying. He
is also the founder and spiritual director of Rigpa, an international,
non-profit network of Buddhist centres and groups around the world.
Born in Kham in Eastern Tibet, Sogyal Rinpoche was recognized at an
early age as the incarnation of a great master and visionary saint of
the nineteenth century, Tertön Sogyal Lerab Lingpa
(1856-1926), a
teacher to the thirteenth Dalai Lama. He received the traditional
training of a Tibetan lama under the close supervision of Jamyang
Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, one of the most outstanding
spiritual
masters of the twentieth century, who raised Rinpoche like his own son.
He went on to study with many other great masters, of all schools of Tibetan Buddhism, especially Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche and Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. In 1971, Rinpoche went to England, where he also studied Comparative Religion at Cambridge University.
Rinpoche has been teaching for over thirty years and continues to travel widely in Europe, America, Australia and Asia.
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