Sogyal Lakar Rinpoche (in Tibetan: བསོད་རྒྱལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wylie: Bsod-rgyal Rin-po-che) was born in 1947 in Tibet and died on August 28, 2019 in Bangkok.
Sogyal Lakar Rinpoche is a Tibetan lama exiled in 1956 who had received an education in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism then Western in India and England.
He is the author of numerous works:
* The Tibetan Book of Life and Death Publisher Lgf 2005 (ISBN 2253067717)
* The Future of Buddhism, Éditions de La Table Ronde, 2003 (ISBN 2710325942)
* Sparks of Awakening, Editions de La Table Ronde, 1995 (ISBN 2710306964)
Sogyal Rinpoche spoke in particular at international conferences on the spiritual accompaniment of the dying, and on Tibetan Buddhism in the modern world, the search for peace and stability, happiness.