Sogyal, Rinpoche
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- Wikipedia, viewed 29 November 2022(Sogyal Rinpoche; Tibetan Dzogchen lama; born Sonam Gyaltsen Lakar in 1947 at Trehor, Kham, Tibet; attended a Catholic school in Kalimpong, India and then studied at Delhi University in India's capital before coming to the West; in 1971, he was granted a place to study comparative religion at Trinity College, Cambridge as a visiting scholar; began to teach in London in 1974 at his centre, a house in Kilburn, originally called Orgyen Chöling, later changed to Dzogchen Orgyen Chöling; in 1979, Sogyal Rinpoche chose the name Rigpa, the innermost, essential nature of mind, for his work; a need had arisen for a place to accommodate larger numbers of people and, to facilitate this, The Rigpa Fellowship, a charitable trust, was founded in 1981 in London; became spiritual director of several centres around the world before retiring on 11 August 2017; died 28 August 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand)
- His The Tibetan way of living and dying, c1992:CIP t.p. (Sogyal Rinpoche)
- Publisher's information(Sogyal Rinpoche [Rinpoche, a honorific term]; Sogyal)
- Pratu su saphawa mai, 1998:t.p. (Sokieo Rinpoche)
- RA. LCN 2014
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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 20th century, Tertön Sogyal Lerab Lingpa. Sogyal Rinpoche was the founder and former spiritual director of Rigpa — an international network of over 100 Buddhist centres and groups in 23 countries around the world — and the author of the best-selling book The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, which has been printed in 30 languages and 56 countries. Before his retirement, in the wake of abuse allegations in 2017, he had been teaching for 40 years in Europe, America, Asia and Australia. Sogyal Rinpoche had been accused of sexual and physical assault and abuse, as well as misusing charitable funds, with allegations stretching back to the 1970s. In 2017, Rigpa announced these allegations would be investigated by an outside party and a report has now been published, upholding most of the allegations. Sogyal Rinpoche did not respond to the report but stated that "I am clear in my own mind that I have never, ever, acted towards anyone with a motive of selfish gain or harmful intent."
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