
Sogyal Rinpoche
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known-for
Acting
gender
Male
birthday
1947-01-01
place-of-birth
Kham, Tibet
also-known-as
biography
Sogyal Rinpoche was a Tibetan Dzogchen lama of the Nyingma tradition. He was recognized as the incarnation of a great Tibetan master and visionary saint of the nineteenth century, Tertön Sogyal Lerab Lingpa. He founded the international Buddhist network Rigpa, and was the author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.