| LC control no. | n 92022695 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Sogyal, Rinpoche |
| Variant(s) | Rinpoche Sogyal Sogyal Sogyal Rinpoche Sōkīeo Rinpōchē |
| See also | Rigpa Fellowship (Great Britain) |
| Beginning date | 1947 |
| Ending date | 2019 |
| Associated country | Tibet India Great Britain |
| Located | London (England) |
| Place of death | Bangkok (Thailand) |
| Field of activity | Buddhism |
| Found in | His The Tibetan way of living and dying, c1992: CIP t.p. (Sogyal Rinpoche) Publisher's information (Sogyal Rinpoche [Rinpoche, a honorific term]; Sogyal) Pratū sū saphāwa mai, 1998: t.p. (Sōkīeo Rinpōchē) 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) |
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