What is Sogyal Rinpoche?
{{Buddhism}} {{stack|[[File:Sogyal Rinpoche Prayer.jpg|thumb|Sogyal Rinpoche]]}} '''Sogyal Rinpoche''' (1947 &ndash; 28 August 2019) was a [[Tibet]]an [[Dzogchen]] [[Lama]] of the [[Nyingma]] tradition. He taught for over 30 years. He travelled widely in Europe, America, Australia and Asia.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rigpa.org/Sogyal_Rinpoche.html |title=Rigpa.org: Sogyal Rinpoche |access-date=2008-01-17 |archive-date=2007-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701162409/http://www.rigpa.org/Sogyal_Rinpoche.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was the founder and spiritual leader of [[Rigpa]], which is an international network of over 100 Buddhist centres and groups in 23 countries around the world. He is also the author of the best-selling book ''[[The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying]]'', which has been printed in 30 languages and 56 countries.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rigpa.org/Tibetan_Book_of_Living_and_Dying.html |title=Rigpa.org: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying |access-date=2008-01-17 |archive-date=2007-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614011700/http://www.rigpa.org/Tibetan_Book_of_Living_and_Dying.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Rinpoche often spoke at major conferences in all areas of society, including medicine and healing, education, dialogue between religions, movements for peace and non-violence, the world of business and leadership, and the field of serving the dying and [[hospice]] care. ==Early life== Sogyal Rinpoche was born in 1947 in the region of [[Kham]] in Eastern Tibet. [[Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö]] says that he is the [[reincarnation]] of [[Tertön Sogyal]], a teacher to the [[Thirteenth Dalai Lama]]. Jamyang Khyentse raised him as a son and made sure he got good training. When things got bad in Kham, Khyentse Rinpoche and his young student went to Central Tibet and [[Lhasa]]. In 1955, they met [[Tenzin Gyatso]], His Holiness the 14th [[Dalai Lama]]. They then went to [[India]]. They settled in [[Gangtok]] at the invitation of the king of