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Describes the book’s rapid Western adoption by hospice, doctors, and thought leaders, alongside the growing discomfort that escalated into allegations and legal action in the United States. 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TODAY HE IS FACING CHARHARASSMENT FROM A FOLLOWER WH$10 MILLION IN DAMAGES.MICK BROWN INVESTIIN WHICH MUCH MORE THAN ONE REPUTATI  \nWhen,in 1992,a Tibetan Buddhist lamanamed Sogyal Rinpoche launched hisbook,The Tibetan Book ofLivingand Dying,in London,a celebratory party was heldin a chic Kensington flat.The partywas couture bohemian -thronged withthe alternative intelligentsia,writers,  \n20TELEGRAPF MAGAZINE  \nteachers and doctors,drawn by the promise ofthe exotic and the wise held out by a veneratedteacher speaking from a cenrutics-old tradition.Asthe lma offered a few wel chosen words on thesubject of compassionate living.the multitude ofthirty-and forysomcthings dutifully sat cross-legged and cranped on the floor,limlus crcakingand aching.  \nIt was a small but portentous symbol of the dis-cunforts that ean arisc when East meets West.  \nFew among the gathering.perhaps,would havepredicted that the book,a cuntemporary incepreatioe of traditionsi Tibesan Buddhis;ideas-u!dying,would go on to bccone an intermationbestselier.Yet three years or,The Thetau BskLivigend Dyig has sold more than 250,000 coparound the worid,50,000in Bitain alone.  \nThe book,to wLich the Dalai Lama wrotehe  \nL RINPOCHE,WASELLING AUTHOR,ED TEACHERS INGES OF SEXUALO IS SEEKINGGATES A SCANDALON IS AT STAKE  \nforeword,struck a resonant chord in the grwingWestern dehare abour the cature of consciousnessand our attitude to death.  \nIt has been widely adopted by hospice orgarisa-tions and doctors working with the dying;psychologists and philosophers have queued tocommend it not sinply for its insights into death,but as u coraplete biueprint for an cchical andcompassionate ife.Joha Cleese described it as 'oneof the must helpful books I have ever read',and,introducing a talk in London by the Rinpoche,hailed his own irst appearance as 'warm-up manfor an incarnate lama',  \nBut while Tbe Tibrlan Bone of Living and Dying habroughe Sogyal Rinpoche international celebrity,the twinges of discomfort evident in that Kensington party have now blown up inco contro-vensy and scancal.Sugyal Rinpoche is presertly on   \na meditaive retreat,which is why he has so farbeen unable pensonally to respond tu a Lawsuitwhich has bect laid in a Califorrian court,seckingS10 million damages on a sexuai hatastment charge.  \nThe suit-which incluces counts of fraud,5sault and bactery,infiction of emotiorl distressand breach of fiduciary duty-alleges that,usingthe justification of his spirirual starus,the lamasexually and physically abused a female student;tuing her agarst her hssband and family.This,the charge alleges,was merely one example in apattern of abuse agaitst a nunber of wocnen overthe past 19 years.  \nIt is hard to coavey tie gravity of the aoc.stions.Sogyal Rinpoche is widely regarded asore of the most gifod and cnighrened teachersof Tibetan Bucchsm in the West and,since the publication of The Tbvan Book of Liing  \nwa/Ktm  \nand Dying he is ccrtainiy one of the best known.  \nRirpoche means precious one'.Sogyal isbelieved to be the incarnafion of Terton Sogryal,aTibetac lama who was the teacher of the 13chDaai Lama(che present one is the 14th)and whodied in 1926.  \nNow in his hate 40s,Sogyzl Rinpoche wasbrought up in a monastery in Tbet.He left forIndis in 1958,a year before the popular Tibetanuprising against Chinese ocupation that led to theDala:Lama's fight inco exale.He was educated byJesuits at a Catholic school,then st university inDelhi,and at Trinicty College,Cambridge,wherehe studiod comparative relgion,although he didnut gnaduate.  \nHe arrived in London in the late Seventics andbegan gathering a small group of students aroundhim,and in 1981 the Rigpa Fdllowship(Rigpa  \nmeans'innermostnarareof mind)wasfoundedto propagace his teachings.Rigpa now hasseveral thousand followers,offices chroughoutEurope and North Amcrica,and teaching centresin 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