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Sogyal Rinpoche

1947 - 2019

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Sogyal Rinpoche (Tibetan: བསོད་རྒྱལ་, Wylie: Bsod-rgyal; 1947 – 28 August 2019) was a Tibetan Dzogchen lama. He was recognized as the incarnation of a Tibetan master and visionary saint of the 19th century, Tertön Sogyal Lerab Lingpa. Sogyal Rinpoche was the founder and former spiritual director of Rigpa — an international network of over 100 Buddhist centres and groups in 23 countries around the world — and the author of the best-selling book The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, which has been printed in 30 languages and 56 countries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sogyal Rinpoche has received more than 448,894 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Sogyal Rinpoche is the 2,738th most popular writer (up from 3,011th in 2019), the 653rd most popular biography from China (down from 641st in 2019) and the 66th most popular Chinese Writer.

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  • 450k

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  • 52.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sogyal Rinpoche ranks 2,738 out of 5,755. Before him are Labīd, Samuel Smiles, Anna Sewell, Pedro Salinas, Tang Xianzu, and Ahron Daum. After him are Gertrud von Le Fort, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Macropedius, Rafael de Nogales Méndez, Rachel Bluwstein, and Mohammed Hussein Heikal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Sogyal Rinpoche ranks 229. Before him are Tim Buckley, Peter Senge, Harry Redknapp, Sergio Badilla Castillo, Mitsuo Tsukahara, and Brian Herbert. After him are Kōzō Okamoto, James Dyson, John Mearsheimer, Massiel, Somchai Wongsawat, and Co Adriaanse. Among people deceased in 2019, Sogyal Rinpoche ranks 164. Before him are Eva Mozes Kor, Charles Jencks, Charlie Whiting, Jörg Demus, Marie-José Nat, and Goro Shimura. After him are Sylvia Miles, José Luis Brown, Krishna Sobti, Vonda N. McIntyre, Peggy Lipton, and Momir Bulatović.

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In China

Among people born in China, Sogyal Rinpoche ranks 653 out of 1,392. Before him are Lau Kar-leung (1934), Salchak Toka (1901), Jimmy Lai (1948), Chen Boda (1904), Wang Fuzhi (1619), and Tang Xianzu (1550). After him are Ehmetjan Qasim (1914), Huang Tingjian (1045), Yuan Mei (1716), François Cheng (1929), Wang Bo (650), and Ma Huateng (1971).

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Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Sogyal Rinpoche ranks 66. Before him are Lu Ji (261), Yuan Zhen (779), Xu Zhimo (1897), Guan Hanqing (1210), Zhou Daguan (1266), and Tang Xianzu (1550). After him are Yuan Mei (1716), François Cheng (1929), Wang Bo (650), Longchenpa (1308), Yang Jiang (1911), and Gu Yanwu (1613).

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