At this difficult time, we request you to please accept our sincere condolence and please pass the same to your members as well. Our prayers and thoughts will always be there with you and your members in these challenging times.

The essential link between student and teacher is the teaching. Now, the connection is no longer with the embodied Lama, but rather with the pure dharmakaya Lama. It is a potent time to allow your own unborn nature and the Lama’s dharmakaya essence to mingle together and merge. With that essence as a basis, we can make offerings, supplications, pujas and prayers for swift rebirth.

In the 20th century, the bodhichitta aspiration and activities of Sogyal Rinpoche to spread the teachings of the Victorious One in general and the long-standing Nyingma tradition throughout the west were unequalled. He transmitted the peaceful teachings of the inner doctrine of the Dharma to the minds of people in modern, developed countries and also helped to found the Dzogchen Monastery in South India.

We pray that the precious, unmistaken reincarnation of Sogyal Rinpoche be found quickly, that he may become a noble, glorious protector of the teachings and sentient beings, and that his life and liberation be equal to that of his predecessors.

It’s amazing that Rinpoche’s passing coincided with the anniversary of Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche. I was astonished by this fact. Although we are praying for Sogyal Rinpoche’s progress, he has already travelled to Zangdokpalri.

Let us make heartfelt prayers that all Rinpoche’s Dharma projects will be quickly fulfilled and that his reincarnation swiftly returns. May his devoted students continue to practice, and may their practice flourish.

With pure faith and samaya that does not waver, one should give rise to a sense of responsibility to ensure that the legacy of Rinpoche’s vast enlightened activity of bringing benefit to the doctrine and beings in this world will continue to be ever-increasing in the years ahead.

Sogyal Rinpoche has left behind a wealth of teachings, instructions and guidance for all the Rigpa centers throughout the world, and the time has come for all his students to renew their faith in him and reaffirm their commitment to his messages of love, compassion, wisdom and enlightenment.

I would like to extend my heartfelt condolences on the sad passing of your beloved Teacher, Sogyal Rinpoche. I am thinking of you all at this difficult time, and I am deeply sorry for your loss.

Even though it appears to us impure students that the master himself has passed beyond sorrow, the inexhaustible wisdom of his enlightened mind never wavers from constantly seeing all sentient beings. So everyone should strive to practice guru yoga, and merge your own mind with the master’s wisdom mind as much as you can.

Sogyal Rinpoche’s devoted students are heartbroken, of course. But, they will find, as we did after the passing of Chagdud Rinpoche, that his presence is not absent. Like the glow of the setting sun, his transcendent sacred intention will become clearer, more beautifully luminous. They will know it in their hearts.

I’d like to take the opportunity to remind you of something you will have heard many times before: genuine disciples should be harmonious, have pure, unblemished samaya, and unwavering devotion. This is especially important now