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Sogyal Rinpoche was born in Tibet and raised by one of the most revered spiritual masters of this century, Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö. With the Chinese occupation of Tibet, he went into exile with his master, who died in 1959 in Sikkim in the Himalayas. After university studies in Delhi and Cambridge, England, he acted as translator and aide to several leading Tibetan masters and began teaching in the West in 1974. Rinpoche sees his life's task in transplanting the wisdom of Buddha to the West by offering training in the vision set out in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. This training can enable those who follow it to understand, embody, and integrate Buddhist teachings into their everyday lives.

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Average rating: 4.22 · 3,990 ratings · 230 reviews · 16 distinct works

	The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche, Andrew Harvey 4.22 avg rating — 3,873 ratings — published 1992 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Glimpse After Glimpse: Daily Reflections on Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche, Patrick Gaffney (Editor) 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Le Livre Tibetain De La Vie Et De La Mort 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Meditation by Sogyal Rinpoche, Patrick Gaffney, Andrew Harvey 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Tibetan Wisdom for Living and Dying 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Future of Buddhism 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Living Well, Dying Well: Tibetan Wisdom Teachings 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Dzogchen and Padmasambhava 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1990	My rating:
	The Spirit of Buddhism: The Future of Dharma in the West 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Tibetan Wisdom for Living and Dying 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1994	My rating:

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“Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to. ”
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“Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly.”
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“Perhaps the deepest reason why we are afraid of death is because we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity — but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our "biography," our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit cards… It is on their fragile and transient support that we rely for our security. So when they are all taken away, will we have any idea of who we really are?

Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn't that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?”
― Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

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