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Sogyal Rinpoché () (aussi appelé Sogyal Lakar Rinpoché), né en 1947 à Tréhor au Kham et mort le  à Bangkok en Thaïlande, est un lama tibétain exilé en 1956 ayant reçu une éducation dans la tradition nyingma du bouddhisme tibétain puis occidentale en Inde et en Angleterre.

Il est l'auteur d'un ouvrage ayant connu un succès international, Le Livre tibétain de la vie et de la mort, inspiré en partie du Bardo Thödol. Sogyal Rinpoché, qui a commencé à enseigner en Occident en 1974, y donne des conférences publiques ou conduit des retraites d'étude et de pratique du bouddhisme tibétain. Ses communications dans des colloques internationaux portent notamment sur l'accompagnement spirituel des mourants, mais aussi sur le bouddhisme tibétain dans le monde moderne, la recherche de la paix et de la stabilité, le bonheur et ses sources.

Sogyal Rinpoché et ses disciples ont fondé les Centres Rigpa, un réseau international de centres bouddhistes dont il est le conseiller spirituel. L'organisation comprend 130 centres répartis dans 41 pays.

À partir de 1994, des accusations de mauvais traitements de nature sexuelle, physique et émotionnelle portées par d'anciens disciples et des journalistes, alimentent des controverses sur son attitude vis-à-vis de ses proches collaborateurs ainsi que sur son mode de vie. En , en Californie, il fait l'objet d'une plainte de la part d'une ancienne disciple, qui réclame 10 millions de dollars. Les poursuites judiciaires engagées au civil se terminent en décembre 1995 par un règlement amiable et financier. En , Rigpa France dénonce une campagne d'attaques médiatiques puis, en , à la suite d'une lettre de dénonciation publiée par des membres, déclare que les mauvais traitements n'ont pas de place dans leur communauté et que Sogyal Rinpoché prend un temps de retraite et de réflexion.

Le , le dalaï-lama déclare que Sogyal Rinpoché, son très bon ami, est discrédité : . Le , Sogyal Rinpoché démissionne de la direction de Rigpa, la laissant à un groupe d'anciens étudiants et de lamas tibétains. Il a cependant démenti ces dernières accusations, lesquelles n'ont mené à aucune plainte ni procès devant un tribunal.

Il se retire à Bangkok en Thaïlande où, traité pour un cancer diagnostiqué en septembre 2017, il meurt en 2019.

Biographie

Naissance et éducation au Tibet (1947-1956)

Sogyal Lakar Rinpoché est né en 1947 dans la région de Tréhor dans la province du Kham (Tibet oriental), de Péma Tséring Wangmo, sœur aînée de Khandro Tséring Chödrön, de la famille Lakar (des négociants), et de Jamga, neveu de Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoché. Il est très tôt considéré par Jamyang Khyentsé Chökyi Lodrö comme un des tulkou de Tertön Sogyal (1856-1926), un des maîtres spirituels de Jamyang Khyentsé Chökyi Lodrö et du  dalaï-lama, Thubten Gyatso (selon Rob Hogendoorn, un universitaire et bouddhiste néerlandais, la mère de Sogyal Rinpoché serait l'unique source de cette affirmation, pour d'autres auteurs, la source est Jamyang Khyentsé Chökyi Lodrö). Le  Dzogchen Rinpoché est son demi-frère, le  karmapa, son oncle. À l'âge de 6 mois, l'enfant est confié par sa mère à la sœur de celle-ci, Khandro Tsering Chodron, laquelle est l'épouse spirituelle d'un éminent lama tibétain, Jamyang Khyentsé Chökyi Lodrö. Celui-ci dès lors l'élève comme son propre fils et supervise son éducation de lama au monastère de Dzongsar.

En 1950, l'Armée populaire de libération chinoise pénètre au Tibet oriental. Jamyang Khyentsé Chökyi Lodrö décide de partir de son monastère de Dzongsar au cours de l'été ou de l'automne 1956. Sous prétexte d'un pèlerinage pour le Tibet Central, il part, accompagné seulement d'une cinquantaine de personnes, dont Sogyal Rinpoché et une partie de sa famille, laissant derrière eux la plupart de leurs possessions, textes et objets sacrés.

À leur arrivée à Lhassa, ils rencontrent au Potala pour la première fois le  dalaï-lama, Tenzin Gyatso. Ils continuent leur pèlerinage en se rendant à Tsourphou, Mindroling, Samyé Chimphu et Lhodrak (lieu particulièrement sacré et lié à l'histoire de Padmasambhava au Tibet), où Jamyang Khyentse présente le jeune Sogyal Rinpoché à la nature de l'esprit au cours d'une cérémonie traditionnelle, lui conférant ainsi toutes les bénédictions de la lignée et du dzogchen.

Exil en Inde et au Sikkim (1956-1971)

Ils arrivent fin 1956 en Inde, se rendant à Tso Péma et Bodhgaya et dans d'autres lieux sacrés du bouddhisme. Ils s'établissent finalement à Gangtok, capitale du Sikkim, à l'invitation du roi ou chögyal du Sikkim Tashi Namgyal.

Après le décès de son lama-racine, Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, au Sikkim en 1959, Sogyal Rinpoché continue à y étudier avec d'autres maîtres comme Khenpo Appé, Khenpo Lodrö Zangpo et Gyaltön Rinpoché. À cette époque il apprend aussi la calligraphie tibétaine avec Drungyik Tsering Tashi.

Il est élève ensuite à l'école primaire catholique de  Kalimpong, l', où il apprend l'anglais avant d'étudier la philosophie et de décrocher le baccalauréat au Collège Saint-Étienne, un établissement anglican relevant de l'Université de Delhi.

Études en Angleterre (1971-1973)
En 1971, Sogyal Rinpoché obtient une bourse pour aller en Angleterre étudier la religion comparée au Trinity College de l'université de Cambridge mais ne décroche aucun diplôme. C'est dans cette ville qu'il fait la connaissance d'une jeune étudiante du bouddhisme, Mary Finnigan (laquelle toutefois devait par la suite devenir son principal détracteur après avoir été son disciple jusqu'en 1979). Grâce à elle, et fort de sa maîtrise de l'anglais, il prodigue ses premiers enseignements à Londres et fait de nombreux adeptes, séduits par son côté exotique et son assurance. Un don de  de la part de John Cleese, lui permet d'ouvrir un premier centre à Londres.

Il poursuit aussi ses études et sa pratique du bouddhisme tibétain avec d'autres grands maîtres de la tradition nyingma, notamment Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoché, Dudjom Rinpoché et Nyoshül Khenpo Rinpoché. Lors de leur venue en Occident, il leur sert souvent d'assistant et de traducteur.

En 1973, il aide à l'organisation du premier séjour du  dalaï-lama en Occident. Il l'accompagne notamment à Rome pour sa rencontre avec le pape Paul VI, puis en Suisse et en Angleterre.

Premiers enseignements et création de Rigpa (1974-1979)
À partir de 1974, Sogyal Rinpoché commence à enseigner à Londres, puis en France et traduit souvent pour Dudjom Rinpoché, qu'il accompagne aux États-Unis en 1976, en tant qu'assistant et traducteur.

En , il crée avec ses disciples son premier centre du Dharma, appelé Dzogchen Orgyen Chöling, à Kilburn, à Londres. De nombreux grands maîtres de toutes les traditions du bouddhisme tibétain y enseigneront, notamment Dudjom Rinpoché, Sakya Trizin, le  karmapa et Tulku Urgyen Rinpoché.

Le sangha des étudiants français de Sogyal Rinpoché se réunit pour la première fois en septembre 1978 dans son centre au  de la rue Burq à Paris, dans le . En 1979, Sogyal Rinpoché donne le nom de Rigpa — un terme tibétain signifiant la « nature ultime de l'esprit » — à son organisation.

Poursuite des enseignements (1980-2006)

En 1980, Sogyal Rinpoché enseigne aux États-Unis, aux Pays-Bas et en Irlande, ainsi qu'en France et au Royaume-Uni.

Sogyal Rinpoché, comme d'autres lamas tibétains, acquiert la nationalité française.

À la requête de Sogyal Rinpoché et de Rigpa, le  dalaï-lama donne en 1982, à la pagode de Vincennes à Paris, la transmission de pouvoir de Padmasambhava et de ses huit manifestations, à partir des visions pures du  dalaï-lama.

Rigpa invite aussi le dalaï-lama en de nombreuses autres occasions, notamment en 1984 à Londres, où il donne une journée d'enseignement Dzogchen, et en 1989 à San José, où il donne deux jours d'enseignement Dzogchen.

En 2010, Sogyal Rinpoché fonde l'Institut Tenzin Gyatso aux États-Unis pour promouvoir la volonté du dalaï-lama d'un dialogue entre science et spiritualité.

Genèse et publication du Livre tibétain de la vie et de la mort (1983-1992)
En 1983, Sogyal Rinpoché participe, en Californie, au colloque « Nouvelles dimensions sur la mort et la fin de vie », où il prend connaissance des travaux d'Elisabeth Kübler-Ross et de Kenneth Ring. Cela le conduit à réfléchir au rôle que pourraient jouer les enseignements tibétains dans le domaine de la mort et des soins palliatifs. Il commença alors à donner des conférences internationales sur la philosophie tibétaine sur la mort, ce qui amena le public à lui demander un livre relatif à ses enseignements. Sogyal Rinpoché se donna le temps d'une évolution de son enseignement avant d'accepter d'écrire l'ouvrage.

En 1992, il publie Le Livre tibétain de la vie et de la mort, co-rédigé par Patrick Gaffney et Andrew Harvey, des disciples anglais de longue date, à partir des enseignements du maître. Le dalaï-lama y contribue par une préface empreinte de joie. Sogyal Rinpoché y présente la façon dont la sagesse et la compassion enseignées par le bouddhisme peuvent être utilisées pour prendre soin des personnes en fin de vie.

Création du centre de retraite puis du temple de Lérab Ling en France (1991-2008)

En 1991, Sogyal Rinpoché crée, à l'aide de ses étudiants, le centre de retraite international de Lérab Ling près de Lodève, dans le Nord du département de l'Hérault. La construction du temple dénommé Palri Péma Ösel Dargyé Ling, qui abrite l'Institut de sagesse et de compassion, est achevée en 2006. Le temple de Lerab Ling est inauguré par le  dalaï-lama, le  en la présence de la première dame de France Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, du chef de la diplomatie française Bernard Kouchner et de sa secrétaire d'État Rama Yade.

Activités en Irlande (2007-2009)
En 2007, Sogyal Rinpoché devient le directeur spirituel du centre d'accompagnement spirituel de Déchen Shying destiné aux personnes malades ou mourantes, à , en Irlande.

En , à Killarney, en Irlande, Sogyal Rinpoché fait un exposé intitulé The Heart of Compassion au colloque sur le thème « Compassion et présence - l'accompagnement spirituel pendant la vie et en fin de vie » organisé par son association Rigpa.

Enseignements en Inde et au Bhoutan

Sogyal Rinpoché enseigne régulièrement en Inde, en particulier à Delhi à la Fondation pour la responsabilité universelle. Il enseigne également dans les régions himalayennes du Sikkim, où il a vécu une partie de son enfance, et au Bhoutan. Il donne des enseignements tous les ans au Bhoutan depuis 2007, qui sont aussi régulièrement diffusées à la télévision là-bas. Le premier Premier ministre du Bhoutan élu et champion de sa philosophie du bonheur national brut, Lyonchen Jigme Thinley Yoser, assiste régulièrement à ses enseignements. Sogyal Rinpoché a déclaré avoir décidé de faire de l'enseignement au Bhoutan une priorité car c'est le dernier pays bouddhiste Vajrayana indépendant du monde. Il a également dit que « les jeunes d'aujourd'hui dans la région himalayenne doivent comprendre le Dharma d'une façon pratique » et que « la compréhension du Dharma d'une façon réelle est une partie importante et intégrante du développement du Bhoutan. »

En 1998, Sogyal Rinpoché s'est vu officiellement offrir le trône du propre monastère de Tertön Sogyal au Tibet, le monastère de Kalzang, par son abbé, Sherab Özer Rinpoché, lors d'une cérémonie en France.

Conférences et colloques (2004-2012)

En 2004, il est l'un des conférenciers principaux au Parlement des religions du monde, à Barcelone, en Espagne.

En , à l'Institut Aspen, à Aspen, dans le Colorado, il converse avec Robert Thurman sur « L'héritage bouddhiste unique du Tibet », au cours du symposium intitulé « Le Dalaï-Lama à Aspen : une célébration de la culture tibétaine ».

En , il prononce le discours d'ouverture du  international « Bouddhisme et Médecine » qui se tient à Lerab Ling sous son égide.

La même année, il présente avec Robert Thurman un exposé sur « Le bouddhisme tibétain dans la culture occidentale moderne » à la Conférence Internationale sur le bouddhisme tibétain qui a lieu à l'université Emory.

En 2011, il est l'un des intervenants à la Congrégation bouddhiste mondiale, à Delhi, dont le thème était « la résilience du bouddhisme et sa capacité d'apporter des solutions aux questions les plus urgentes du monde moderne ».

En 2012, il participe au colloque de Sydney sur « le bonheur et ses causes ».

Mort
Sogyal Rinpoché meurt en Thaïlande à l'âge de 72 ans, le , d'une embolie pulmonaire. Il était traité pour un cancer du côlon, diagnostiqué en .

Accusations de mauvais traitements
En , en Californie, Sogyal Rinpoché fait l'objet d'une plainte pour « mauvais traitements physiques, psychiques et sexuels » déposée par une personne sous le pseudonyme de Janice Doe, qui réclame alors 10 millions de dollars. Les poursuites judiciaires engagées au civil se terminent en  par un règlement amiable et financier dont ni les termes, ni les détails de l'affaire ne sont rendus publics.

Cette même année, le  dalaï-lama avait encouragé les disciples qui trouvaient à se plaindre du mauvais comportement d'un maître oriental ou occidental à le faire savoir, « jusque dans les journaux, si nécessaire ». De son côté, le secrétaire du dalaï-lama, Tenzin Geyche Tethong, avait déclaré que ce qu'avaient vécu certaines des étudiantes qui s'étaient plaint de différents maîtres était terrible et regrettable . Sandra Pawula, porte-parole de Rigpa à Santa Cruz en Californie, tout en ne souhaitant pas commenter les allégations, déclare que Sogyal Rinpoché n'est pas marié et ne prétend pas être un moine célibataire.

En 1995, le Daily Telegraph rapporte que d'autres étudiantes de Sogyal Rinpoché se sont senties obligées d'avoir des relations sexuelles avec lui.

Tout en déclarant que Sogyal Rinpoché est un célèbre enseignant du bouddhisme tibétain et qu'il est avec son organisation Rigpa un acteur de premier plan dans l'industrie naissante des soins palliatifs, Dialogue Ireland, une association de défense et d'information sur le phénomène sectaire, s'inquiète de la face sombre de Sogyal Rinpoché à la suite d'une déclaration en 1997 d'une assistante française de ce dernier sur les outrages qu'elle aurait subis.

En 2000, le journaliste irlandais,  publie, dans le Sunday Times, un article soutenant sans réserve Sogyal Rinpoché. Questionné sur son soutien, il répond : « (...) Je ne doute pas que Rinpoché, comme d'autres prêtres, pasteurs ou gourous, drague les femmes. Mais il drague des adultes. Ce n'est pas bien, mais ce n'est pas inhabituel et ça n'a aucun impact sur le message du bouddhisme ».

À la suite d'une émission sur le sujet en , Sex scandals in religion, dont le troisième épisode In the name of enlightenment aborde cette affaire, diffusée sur Vision TV, Rigpa publie un communiqué indiquant qu'elle ne « trouve  pas très utile de rentrer dans un débat public via une chaîne de télévision sur les expériences d'un individu », « confiante dans la sincérité, l'authenticité et la conduite de Sogyal Rinpoché », l'ayant seulement vu « agir pour le bien de toute personne », mais qu'elle « prend très au sérieux toute allégation de conduite incorrecte ».

En 2011, Elodie Emery, journaliste à Marianne, dénonce les dérives de Sogyal Rinpoché, parmi lesquelles, les humiliations publiques de ses collaborateurs, des plaisanteries racistes et le fait qu'il n'hésite pas à prononcer « Heil Hitler » en public. Cette même année, Mary Finnigan déclare que certains cyniques expliquent le silence entourant le comportement du maître par le fait qu'une partie de l'argent qui afflue vers lui, va à la cause tibétaine.

Pour Olivier Raurich, bras droit et traducteur de Sogyal Rinpoché et ancien président de Rigpa France, Sogyal Rinpoché . À Lérab Ling, à ce que rapporte le journaliste Mick Brown, Sogyal logeait dans un chalet aux lambris en bois de cèdre et disposait d'une piscine personnelle chauffée. Un écran de télévision géant lui permettait de regarder ses films d'action américains préférés. Dans la cuisine, des serviteurs se tenaient prêts, de jour comme de nuit, à lui cuisiner ses plats préférés.

Livre de Marion Dapsance
En 2016, l'anthropologue Marion Dapsance publie Les Dévots du bouddhisme. Selon Olivier Philippe-Viela, elle y décrit Sogyal Rinpoché en homme d'affaires ultra-matérialiste gérant Rigpa comme une multinationale, chaque retraite vouée à l'apprentissage dans un centre coûtant plusieurs centaines d'euros, et une partie du travail sur soi consistant à satisfaire les besoins du maître, ce qu'on appelle chez Rigpa . D'anciennes « dakinis » au service du Lama lui auraient raconté que, lors de leur passage dans sa chambre, celui-ci retournait les peintures de divinités pour laisser apparaître des photos de nus, avec un fort intérêt pour la comédienne Emmanuelle Béart.

Selon Éric Rommeluère, la thèse de Dapsance entend dénoncer Sogyal Rinpoché comme un charlatan à l'emprise sectaire, bien qu'aucune plainte n'ait été déposée devant la justice française à l'encontre de Rigpa ou de Sogyal Rinpoché et que la Mission interministérielle de vigilance et de lutte contre les dérives sectaires (Miviludes) n'ait pas donné suite aux articles relayant les accusations.

Olivier Philippe-Viela fait remarquer que .

De même, Philippe Cornu critique l'ouvrage de Dapsance, écrivant qu'« elle n'a pas enquêté convenablement sur l'histoire des centres Rigpa, fondés par Sogyal Rinpoché ».

Dans une lettre adressée au journal La Croix, Marion Dapsance fait valoir que son enquête est préfacée par l'un des tibétologues contemporains les plus réputés, Charles Ramble (Oxford, EPHE), et que ses propos se fondent sur des faits et sur un savoir universitaire reconnu.

Lettre d'accusation de huit disciples
En , une lettre est envoyée à  étudiants consécutivement à un piratage informatique. Le magazine Marianne la publie quelques jours plus tard. Signée de huit très proches disciples de Sogyal Rinpoché — tous membres de Rigpa de longue date, nombre d'entre eux y occupant des postes importants — la lettre détaille les violences, menaces et abus sexuels dont ils ont été témoins de la part de ce dernier et met aussi en cause son train de vie dispendieux, qu'il aurait entretenu en détournant des dons.

Appelé à s'exprimer sur cette lettre collective, Matthieu Ricard, donne une interview en 2017 à Elodie Emery du Magazine Marianne. Selon elle, Matthieu Ricard a , mais il déclare ne pas avoir eu connaissance de ces agissements et que : . Toutefois, devant la publication d'extraits qui ne reprennent pas l'intégralité des points de vue qu'il avait souhaité exprimer, Matthieu Ricard décide de rendre publique sa lettre dans sa totalité, il y précise s'être rendu trois fois à Lerab Ling en tant qu'interprète, et non à titre personnel.

Le  août 2017, lors d'une conférence au Ladakh, en Inde, le dalaï-lama, abordant le problème des inconduites dans les congrégations bouddhistes, a évoqué la situation de Sogyal Rinpoché en ces termes : . Le , l'Union bouddhiste de France suspend Rigpa France et Rigpa Lérab Ling de la liste de ses membres, avant de les réintégrer en 2019.

Démission et retraite
Sogyal Rinpoché annonce le  qu'il démissionne de la direction spirituelle de Rigpa, laissant celle-ci à un groupe d'anciens étudiants et de lamas tibétains.

Lorsque Rigpa mandata le cabinet juridique britannique Lewis Silkin pour faire la lumière sur les accusations portées contre Sogyal Rinpoché par huit de ses disciples, l'enquête, menée selon une méthodologie d'administration de la preuve propre au droit civil britannique, mais contraire au droit civil français et au droit pénal tant britannique que françaisconfirma pourtant une bonne partie de leurs dires et conclut que  avaient mis les étudiants en danger en s'abstenant d'intervenir alors que ces responsables étaient au courant de la conduite du maître. Un des disciples déclara à l'enquêteur qu'il avait été frappé plus de 200 fois sur une période de quatre ans et que si Sogyal Rinpoché s'était disputé avec une petite amie, il claquait la porte et donnait un coup de poing dans le ventre à l'étudiant. Dans la lettre que Sogyal Rinpoché envoya pour décliner l'entretien avec le Cabinet Lewis Silkin, il ne reconnut pas avoir maltraité les étudiants : .

Sogyal Rinpoché se retire à Bangkok en Thaïlande. Pour l'Unadfi, . Selon leTelegraph, .

Selon l'avocat de la congrégation Rigpa Lérab Ling, en janvier 2018, aucune plainte n'était en cours. Le Huffingtonpost, à sa mort en 2019, rapporte que Sogyal Rinpoché, n'avait pas été inquiété judiciairement malgré les signalements d'une étudiante à la gendarmerie.

Pétition des douze auprès du dalaï-lama
Avec Sakyong Mipham Rinpoché, Rigdzin Namkha Gyatso Rinpoché, Tulku Lobsang et Robert Spatz (un citoyen belge associé à Ogyen Kunzang Chöling), Sogyal Rinpoché est un des cinq enseignants du bouddhisme tibétain accusés d'inconduite sexuelle dans une pétition souscrite par un groupe de 12 personnes, dont quatre ont rencontré à leur demande le  dalaï-lama en visite aux Pays-Bas en . Contacté par Radio Free Asia, Tulku Lobsang déclare n'être informé d'aucune affaire d'inconduite sexuelle concernant lui-même ou son groupe, de même un représentant de Namkha rejette les allégations. Lors de la réunion, qui dure 20 minutes, le dalaï-lama déclare aux participants qu'il abordera la question des agressions sexuelles dans les communautés bouddhistes tibétaines lorsqu'il rencontrera des chefs religieux tibétains en Inde en , mais à la suite de la mort de Kathok Getse Rinpoché, chef de l'école nyingma du bouddhisme tibétain, cette rencontre est reportée sine die.

Disciples connus
Au nombre des disciples de Sogyal Rinpoché, on trouve , Christine Longaker, Charles Tart, Arabella Churchill, Matteo Pistono, Olivier Raurich, Philippe Cornu, Cathy Blanc.

L'artiste du mouvement Fluxus Robert Filliou, un de ses étudiants, suggéra la rencontre de l'artiste allemand Joseph Beuys et de Sogyal Rinpoché qui se produisit le  à Paris, pour préparer l'audience entre Beuys et le  dalaï-lama.

Vers 1995, ayant lu son ouvrage Le Livre tibétain de la vie et de la mort, l'actrice Jeanne Moreau assiste à ses conférences et s'intéresse au bouddhisme.

Cinématographie
Sogyal Rinpoché joue le rôle de Khenpo Tenzin, en 1993, dans le film de Bernardo Bertolucci Little Buddha.

Il apparaît dans The Making of a Modern Mystic de , réalisé pour la BBC en 1993. Il a également fait l'objet du documentaire Sogyal Rinpoché : la sagesse antique pour le monde moderne (Mitgefühl, Weisheit und Humor) du cinéaste allemand Boris Penth, documentaire qui comprend des entretiens avec John Cleese et l'ancien Premier ministre du gouvernement tibétain en exil Samdhong Rinpoché, lequel a été montré au  de Londres en 1999 et dans d'autres festivals de films à travers le monde. Il apparaît également dans le documentaire de 2008 de Sasha Meyerowitz Teachings on Milarepa.

Sogyal Rinpoché est un des principaux religieux du documentaire d'une heure 28 minutes diffusé le 13 septembre 2022 sur Arte, Bouddhisme, la loi du silence, dans lequel les victimes et témoins de ses différents sévices sexuels et autres s'expriment.

Publications traduites en français

Livres
 Le Livre tibétain de la vie et de la mort, Éditions de La Table Ronde (1993, puis 2003 pour la nouvelle édition augmentée), Éditeur Lgf (2005, nouvelle édition augmentée),
 L'Avenir du bouddhisme, Éditions de La Table Ronde, 2003
 Étincelles d'éveil, Éditions de La Table Ronde, 1995
 Dzogchen et Padmasambhava, Rigpa Publications, 1991

Avant-propos et préfaces
 Avant-propos de La voie du bouddhisme au fil des jours, Olivier Raurich, Éditions Albin MIchel, 2014,
 Avant-propos de La Grande Paix de l'esprit, Le  dalaï-lama, Éditions de La Table Ronde, 2008,
 Avant-propos de Dzogchen : L'essence du cœur de la Grande Perfection, Le  dalaï-lama, The Tertön Sogyal Trust, 2000  et Le Seuil, 2005
 Préface de Trouver l'espoir face à la mort, Christine Longaker, Éditions de La Table Ronde, 1998,
 Préface de Padmasambhava, Philippe Cornu, Éditions du Seuil, 1997

Bibliographie et documentaire
 Bouddhisme, la loi du silence, Elodie Emery et Wandrille Lanos, Ed. JC Lattes, septembre 2022
 Les Dévots du bouddhisme, Marion Dapsance, Ed. Max Milo, 2016
 Bouddhisme, la loi du silence, documentaire de 88 minutes diffusé le 13 septembre 2022 sur Arte dans lequel s'expriment différents témoins.

Notes

Références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

 Marion Dapsance, « S'asseoir avec Sogyal Rinpoché ». L'apprentissage de la dévotion dans le bouddhisme moderne, in The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture, New Series 2, (2/2015),
  - réédition Rootledge 2018 :

  Mary Finnigan and Rob Hogendoorn, Sex and Violence in Tibetan Buddhism: The Rise and Fall of Sogyal Rinpoche, Jorvik Press, 2019, 204 p.

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 Lingtsang Gyalpo
 Folle sagesse

Liens externes

  Site de Sogyal Rinpoché
 Biographie officielle de Sogyal Rinpoché
  Passage biographique dans l'article 'Lakar family' sur le Rigpa Shedra Wiki
 Interview, La sagesse tibétaine au Bascala ce soir, ladepeche.fr,
 Le maître Tibétain Sogyal Rinpoché explique pourquoi la clé du bonheur consiste à transformer l'esprit

Naissance en 1947
Naissance dans le Kham
Étudiant de l'université de Delhi
Étudiant de Trinity College (Cambridge)
Lama Nyingma
Lama Rimé
Écrivain tibétain
Acteur tibétain de cinéma
Rinpoché
Personnalité française née d'un parent tibétain
Personnalité du dialogue interreligieux
Relations entre le Bhoutan et le Tibet
Décès à Bangkok
Décès à 72 ans
Mort d'un cancer colorectal
Mort d'une embolie pulmonaire
Mort d'un cancer en Thaïlande
Décès en août 2019
Bouddhisme et sexualité

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Last weekend, the Plattsburgh State men's hockey team played Geneseo and Brockport for what PSUC considered one of the hardest weekends of the season, and won both games. The team never got themselves down and showed heart in the wins.
This week the team swept the SUNYAC awards. Junior defenseman Rich Botting, who scored the game winner in the 1-0 win over Geneseo, took home the SUNYAC Player of the Week, sophomore Brady Rouleau got the SUNYAC Goalie of the Week and freshman forward Matt Quilty took home SUNYAC Rookie of the Week honors.
Quilty said this weekend was a good jumping off point for the rest of the season and a good start to his college career.
Against the Knights, the Cardinals battled in a hard-fought game where Rouleau got his first start of the season and recorded a shutout. Junior forward Kevin Emmerling said the team played well defensively.
Head coach Bob Emery said the Geneseo goalie and defense played a great game, especially in the first eight minutes.
In the second game of the weekend on Saturday, the Cards were able to come back after allowing two goals in the first period. Emery said he told his team to keep playing the same way.
"After 2-0 in the locker room I told them, I said, 'Guys, we just got to be more responsible in our own end and keep playing the same way,' because I thought we were carrying the play even down 2-0," Emery said.
Quilty said even though the team started out with a deficit, they were still keeping a level head.
One of the big things in games is trying to score the first goal, Emmerling said, and after that the flood gates opened. The team made some minor changes to the team strategy and scored its first goal and then went on a streak of scoring six unanswered goals.
One of the those things is scoring during the power play, where they have converted just once in 17 opportunities. Emery said that to get better on the power play, his team just needs to be more aggressive.
This weekend, PSUC will play against Buffalo State and Fredonia in two matches that are expected to be hard- fought contests.
Emery said Buffalo is a good defensive team, but he is hoping for a 1-0 win. He said he hopes the team will be able to generate more than the one goal, but the Bengals play good defense around the goalie and have the ability to block a lot of shots.
The second game of the weekend is against Fredonia, and Quilty said he is excited to be able to play in a hard-fought match in front of the home crowd with the team being able to feed off of their energy.
Emmerling said he is expecting strong competition and thinks an early lead will give the Cards two more wins.


Virginio Ferrari is an internationally recognized Italian sculptor who, beginning in 1966, spent ten years at the University of Chicago as a faculty member in the Department of Art (part of which is now the Department of Visual Arts). By the age of 30, in addition to his faculty post, he was already a sculptor-in-residence at the Midway Studios and had exhibited work at The Renaissance Society. More than thirty of his works dot Chicago's streets, parks, and plazas, and several of them live on campus at the University.
Three of his most visible sculptures are Dialogo, Interlocking, and Caring. Dialogo (1971), outside of Pick Hall, is a bronze monumental sculpture commemorating Albert Pick Jr.; Interlocking (1993) sits in the Laboratory School's courtyard as a stainless steel interactive bench; and Caring (2015), one of the newest additions, is a massive marble sculpture commissioned in honor of the Bucksbaum Foundation for the lobby of the Center for Care and Discovery at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
All of his campus works embody Ferrari's dedication to civic art's accessibility and its essential role in the everyday experience of the city. In his statement at a retrospective in 1995, he wrote, "I want to create situations that delight the eye, in the streets and squares and corners of the city. I want the passer-by to be pleasantly surprised to encounter sculpture, as though it were a natural part of the city landscape." Ferrari still practices in his Chicago studio and in Guardistallo, Italy, and his work continues to surprise city-goers and connect the expansive urban fabric to its people.


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>REACT: Missing the point in Mississippi
>As expected, Barack Obama cruised to an easy victory in the Mississippi Democrat primary, picking up about 20 of the states 33 delegates, with the remainder going to Hillary.
His victory, however, is more evidence that he will be an extreme underdog in the General Election. Mississippi has the highest percentage of African-Americans of any state in the nation. They represented and overwhelming 70 percent of the voters in the Democrat primary. They gave Obama more than 90 percent of their votes as an expression of racial solidarity. (Dare we call it racism?) Conversely, Hillary took the vast majority of white votes. (Dare we call it ethnic pride?)
And yes. There is irony in the fact that the Mississippi flag (pictured) incorproates the old confederate "stars and bars." Even more so when you consider that a new flag proposal was soundly defeated by two-thrids of the voters in 2001. That referendum could foretell Obama's future in a general election. His impressive victory in the Democrat primary may be counterintuitive in terms of November.
Whatever you call it, racial voting has floated Obama's campaign to the top – and it will sink it in a general election if he is the Democrat standard bearer.
As I have previously written, as soon as Obama picked up the racial cudgel in South Carolina, he began to position his campaign on the great American racial fault line. Race — not the audacity of hope or the promise of change in the White House, other than skin color — is the underlying defining issue.
It is not unheard of for a candidate to do what is necessary to win a nomination, only to find the winning formula in the primary is a receipe for defeat in the general. Obama finds himself in that position. After running as the son of his father in the primaries, can he run as the son of his mother in the General Election? That takes a lot of hope — and more change than one can believe in.
Footnote: I have been hearing a lot of my conservative compatriots a'hopin' and a'prayin' for a Clinton nomination in the belief that she is the more beatable of the two candidates. I disagree. Without a monumental disaster in the McCain camp – never to be discounted —
I think Obama is predestined to be an also-ran. I think it is dangerous to underestimate the Clintons, just as the Democrats always underestimated Ronald Reagan when they were a'hopin' and a'prayin' that he would be the opposing candidate.
By Larry Horist | Also posted in African-American, barack obama, black vote, democrat, hillary clinton, primary election, racism, republican, white vote | Comments (0)
>REACT: Daley plays the race card … and it's a joker
In his attempt to bully support for a new Grant Park location for the Children's Museum, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley deals the race card from the bottom of the deck. He accuses the citizens living in the highrises adjacent to the proposed location of being racists, who do not want "black or brown" kiddies to be drawn to their Loop neighborhood.
How low can the mayor go?
He blatantly calls tens of thousands of his citizens "racists," when in fact that region of the city is populated by some of the most tolerant individuals in Chicago, including a bunch of "black and brown" parents. I would remind the mayor that this is the 42nd ward, not the old 11th.
The Mayor fails to note that the new Museum site is adjacent to the Chicago Park District field house named after his father. It is a field house, which hosts summer camp and other events for thousands of children – including many of those black and brown youngsters. Far from protesting the interracial kids' programs and events, the neighbors include their own children among the enrollees.
If Chicago is a racially confrontational city, it is largely due to the historic race baiting tactics of the political machine. Using concocted racism as a straw man, the mayor actually promotes what he feigns to oppose.
This baseless accusation comes from a man whose family has presided over the most racially divided city in America, whose early elections were advanced by engendering racial fears over the possibili ty of a second black mayor, and who has successfully driven the low economic black and brown people out of the city to be displaced by suburban yuppies.
This shameless effort is designed to divert public attention away from the very legitimate reasons to deny the Children's Museum the proposed site. It is the long-standing Grant Park covenant of keeping the lakefront as open space for the benefit of all the people, and to resist the eroding imposition of commercial venues.
Ironically, it is the mayor who has sold out to the mostly white upper crust of Chicago society. The overly costly Millennium Park was an elitist concept that gave more than ample opportunity to provide "naming rights" to the hoi polloi. It is a "park" that maintains 24 hour security guards to make sure the common folk do not bicycle, skate, run, walk dogs or trod on the sod – pleasures usually associated with urban parks.
Under the civic delirium of Millennium Park, the mayor provided space for a commercial restaurant — and yet another opportunity for the politically favored. The Harris Theatre was then allowed to intrude into the people's commons – again for the glory and entertainment of the Windy City elite.
Another issue is traffic and parking. The mayor flips off this legitimate concern over congestion with "this is a city" — what every the hell that means. Development in that section of town is already overtaxing the transportation infrastructure. Perhaps his motive in jamming more people-attractions in that small area is to help the Grant Park garage fulfill its failed mission to finance the park.
The Children's Museum is a wonderful thing. My family has enjoyed it over many years. There are innumerable sites where it can serve the public. How about on the south edge of Grant Park, for example? Or, to the west of the McCormack complex? Or hey! How about on underused Northerly Island (see Meigs Field).
The new 42nd ward alderman, Brendan Reilly, opposes the site, and as tradition would have it, professional courtesy should prevail in the City Council. However, it appears that the mayor is willing to throw out that tradition along with the long-standing covenants and traditions protecting the lakefront. Reilly may get his toes stomped on by the compliant City Council, but in the long run, he will have been the voice in the wilderness.
By Larry Horist | Also posted in chicago, children, Daley, grant park, illinois, mayor, politics, public, racism | Comments (0)
>REACT: Bidding Biden bye bye
>Some say a slip of the tongue has ended the presidential bid of Senator Joseph Biden. I have to admit that I totally enjoyed seeing Biden getting bit by the bias of the boys in the media, and then called out by the racial Gestapo. I am referring to the totally silly, unreasonable and unfair response to his calling Obama a "clean" candidate.
For the likes of Jesse Jackson, it was a racist remark. The senator foolishly apologized. That's what liberals do best, because their philosophy is based on atonement.
Referring to a candidate as "clean" is standard jargon in politics. A candidate without scandal, legal problems, criminal record, school expulsions, and unacceptable sexual practices is considered a "clean" candidate. We might call him "Mr. Clean" or some such thing.
(I am only speaking in male gender terms because in politics we always think woman candidates are "clean." Maybe Hillary will break that tradition, too.)
Even as I delight in the irony of a liberal democrat getting the back of the hand from the media and those black "all-whites-are-racists" racists, I am compelled by my own code of honor to rise in defense of Biden.
Memo to Biden: Senator! You have been screwed. This is exactly the kind of unfair political correct nonsense that is routinely heaped upon conservatives and common sense Americans – those of us who live in what you guys call "fly-over" country. Sorry your presidential campaign has been cut short. Okay, I am not really sorry, and still giggling over the way you went down. It is, however, a pity. And next time, instead of flying over, drop in for a visit.
By Larry Horist | Also posted in biden, clean, media, obama, racism, senator | Comments (0)

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Activist groups call on T-Mobile to stop providing cell service to the Guantánamo Bay prison site
Newsbreak 3 months ago in Around The World, Black Lives Matter, Data Center, Enterprise, George Floyd, Guantanamo Bay, Islamophobia, National Security, Nordic, Politics, T-Mobile, Tech Insider 0
Demonstrators hold a sign during a protest calling for the closure of Guantanamo in front of the White House in Washington, DC on January 11, 2022.
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T-Mobile had at least 11 contracts providing service to the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base and prison.
A coalition of 22 organizations is calling on the company to end its work in Guantánamo Bay.
Almost 800 people have been imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay since the prison opened in 2002.
A coalition of 22 organizations is calling on T-Mobile to end its work with the Department of Defense for providing cell service to the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base and prison site.
T-Mobile has worked with the Department of Defense more than 4,000 times. At least 11 of these contracts, according to research conducted by the coalition and shared with Insider, are for providing cell service to the Guantánamo Bay prison site. The contracts, identified by the coalition and reviewed by Insider, began in 2016 and are collectively worth less than $700,000.
According to a Navy document from March, "T-Mobile is the only service provider operational in Guantanamo Bay Cuba."
The activist groups Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE), MPower Change, and Little Sis, the leading voices in the coalition, focus on highlighting corporate contractors for the Guantánamo Bay prison 20 years after it opened in 2002. It comes on the heels of their Big Tech Sells War campaign, which highlights tech companies supplying infrastructure in support of the War on Terror.
"T-Mobile cannot claim to be working toward anti-racism while simultaneously providing services and telecommunications infrastructure to Guantánamo, a site that is synonymous with racial profiling, torture, and unlawful detention," a letter from the coalition to T-Mobile says.
The coalition contacted Jeffrey Neal, T-Mobile's national director of federal sales, on September 23, October 5, and October 13. Ramah Kudaimi, an organizer with ACRE, said it has not received a response.
T-Mobile's Guantánamo Bay contracts are worth a meager amount compared to its other contracts worth more than a million a piece. But the company has taken pride in its work for the prison.
The company published a press release about its work in Guantánamo in 2016. Then-CEO John Legere said the company was "honored to be able to serve those who serve this country with the first high-speed connection."
Kudaimi told Insider that T-Mobile's work on Guantánamo doesn't align with racial justice values T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert has tried to project in the past, such as announcing the company would no longer run ads on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show following Carlson's racist comments on Black Lives Matter protesters.
"You're providing services and infrastructure to a site that is synonymous with racial profiling, with torture, with unlawful detention, and in particular, around Islamophobia," Kudaimi said.
The US has held almost 800 people in the Guantánamo Bay prison, often without being charged with a crime, since it opened in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks. Prisoners at the site have awaited trial for years and experienced torture, beatings, and force feedings.
Currently, 36 people remain imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, despite claims by President Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama that the prison would close. Seventy-five House Democrats recently urged President Biden to follow through on his stated intent to close the prison.
People who eventually left the detention site have reported lingering consequences of their time at the prison, including trouble finding a job, making friends, and restarting their lives.
T-Mobile did not respond to a request for comment.
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Earlier this morning, terrorist attacks took place in Brussels, Belgium.
At least 34 people were killed and 170 wounded after bombs exploded at Brussels Airport at Zaventem and the Maelbeek metro station. After the attacks, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said, "We were fearing terrorist attacks, and that has now happened."
After news of the bombings, many celebrities, including Reese Witherspoon, Kendall Jenner, Khloé Kardashian, Kerry Washington, and Courteney Cox, took to social media to send prayers to those affected.
Reese wrote on Twitter, "On this day, my heart goes out to all the people of Belgium. #PrayForBrussels."
See more of the tweets and Instagram posts below.
All thoughts and prayers with #Brussels today.
There but for the grace of God go any one of us.
Belgian authorities have not yet responded to the claim.
TMZ reports that popular Southern California landmarks, including LAX, Hollywood and Highland, Disneyland, Magic Mountain, and The Grove are all on high alert and have beefed up security since the bombings.


Many of my clients request a lot of flexibility in the criteria they can use to print a report. I give them a selection screen with combo boxes to allow them to choose the criteria that will control the data in their reports. I used to check whether a selection had been made and then string together a Where clause for the SQL statement that contained each criterion they'd entered. This can become very tedious when a form has multiple selection criteria. I'm now using a much simpler method: For each criterion I just create a global variable and function.
I call the appropriate function in the AfterUpdate of each combo box on the selection screen. I also set all global variables to Null when loading the selection screen and frequently provide buttons on the selection screen to clear all combo boxes and set all of the global variables to Null.
I can have as many of these global variables/functions/ query criteria as I want or need. Users can select any combination of values that they want. The result is simple code and tremendous flexibility.


We pass an interesting old building as we head southeast out of Rosenberg.
Our train was re-routed due to flooding, so after traveling southeast to Alvin we turned to head north back to Houston.
Houston appears northwest of us.
We now leave the line from Alvin and prepare to back into Houston station.


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Q: How to read XML node from URL using C#? I'm having program like below. The concept is Read XML value from URL, but my program read the xml structure only, not the code datas. Like <Billing Address></Billing Address>... etc only. But the original XML value is <Billing Address>Strre1</Billing Address>. The Program does not read the inside value.
public static void zohoCRMReadAccounts()
{

    var val = auth();
    var val1= val[0];
    var val2= val[1];

    String xmlURL = "URL";
    XmlTextReader xmlReader = new XmlTextReader(xmlURL);
    while (xmlReader.Read())
    {
        switch (xmlReader.NodeType)
        {
            case XmlNodeType.Element: // The node is an element.
                Console.Write("<" + xmlReader.Name);
                // Read the attributes:
                while (xmlReader.MoveToNextAttribute())
                    Console.Write(" " + xmlReader.Name + "='"
                                   + xmlReader.Value + "'");
                Console.WriteLine(">");
                break;
            case XmlNodeType.Text: //Display the text in each element.
                Console.WriteLine(xmlReader.Value);
                break;
            case XmlNodeType.EndElement: //Display the end of the element.
                Console.Write("</" + xmlReader.Name);
                Console.WriteLine(">");
                break;
        }
    }
    Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue…");
    Console.ReadLine(); //Pause
}

Please help me to fix

A: XML Elements cannot have spaces in their names. Try to remove them first

A: First download the XML. Then Use like,
  try {
    //read xml
    XmlDocument xdoc = new XmlDocument();
    xdoc.Load("XMLFilePath");
    XmlNodeList nodes = xdoc.SelectNodes(@"rss/channel/item");
    foreach (XmlNode node in nodes)
    {
      XmlNode titleNode = node.SelectSingleNode("title");
      string title = titleNode == null ? string.Empty : titleNode.InnerText;

      };

}

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Catherine Grant is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex, UK, where she works on new, multimedia forms of film and media studies research and publishing. She is a longstanding proponent of Open Access. In 2008 she created Film Studies For Free, a regularly updated web-archive of OA film and moving image studies research and resources. The website, with its associated micro-blogs, has a large international readership and around 14,000 regular subscribers. Grant has extensive academic publishing and editing experience, and is a member of the editorial advisory boards of the following journals: Screen (since 1995); Studies in Hispanic Cinemas (since 2003); and, since 2012, the Open Access publications TOMA UNO and Frames. For the inaugural issue of the latter, she commissioned and guest-edited a collection of more than forty contributions by international scholars on the topic Film and Moving Image Studies Re-Born Digital?. She is also a member of the advisory board of JISC MediaHub. Grant is the founding editor of REFRAME, a new, experimental, Open Access, academic digital platform for the online practice, publication and curation of internationally produced research and scholarship in Media, Film and Music, the subject specialisms of its publisher, the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex. She co-edits a number of REFRAME's first projects, including SEQUENCE Serial Studies in Media, Film and Music.
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Top 10 Best Password Managers Of 2019: Which One Do You Use?
July 2, 2019 at 10:48 am by Vikas Shukla
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We use multiple online services every day, and using the same password for all of them is a terrible idea. If someone gets their hand on your password for one platform, they could access your accounts on multiple platforms. If you use a unique, strong, and complex password for each of your online accounts, you won't be able to remember them all. That's where password managers come in to make life easier for you. Here we take a look at the top 10 best password managers of 2019.
Some people use ridiculously simple passwords like "password" and "123456" to remember them easily. They are highly vulnerable to hacking. Using a secure password manager is the best way to make your online life easier. The password managers generate strong passwords for you, store them in an encrypted vault, and automatically insert them when you visit a site that requires the login details.
They give each of your online accounts a complex and different password. All you have to do is remember the master password to access the password manager app. Of course, there is the risk of hackers gaining access to your master password, putting all of your passwords and accounts at risk.
That's why most password managers use multi-factor authentication to ensure that only you can access your password vault because you have to enter both the master password and an authentication code. The code will appear only on your recognized devices. These are the best password managers of 2019:
10- KeePass Password Safe
KeePass is an open-source password manager, allowing anyone to dive into its code to look for potential vulnerabilities. Its open-source approach means security issues can be identified and fixed quickly. You can store passwords for apps as well as websites, and it's available on almost every major operating system. It also offers multiple user support. It has certain limitations such as the lack of the form-filling feature. Its interface is also not as good as others on this list.
9- Password Boss
Password Boss is an excellent password manager but it's not yet available on the Mac, which limits its usability. It's available on Android, Windows, and iOS. Users can easily import passwords from Chrome, Edge browser, Opera, and Firefox, as well as from other password management tools like LastPass, Dashlane, and 1Password. It costs $30 per year.
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LogMeOnce lets users login with a photo, which is one of the many options available. Its Professional version costs $12 per year and the Ultimate version has been priced at $39 a year. The Premium version is free to use. It's available on all major platforms including Android, Windows, iOS, and macOS. It gives users the option to choose whether they want to store their data locally or in the cloud.
7- Sticky Password
Sticky Password is available on Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac. The tool comes in two editions – free and premium. The Premium version costs $30 per year. Users can also choose to buy the lifetime license for $150. It's one of the only few password managers that offer a lifetime license. Both free and premium versions of the tool create strong login details when you register for a new online account. It supports fingerprint authentication on smartphones, and offers browser extensions for Chrome, Opera, and Firefox.
6- EnPass
EnPass is one of the most secure and reliable password managers out there. It works on almost every major platform including iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Chromebook, Linux, and even BlackBerry. EnPass offers a free trial version but if you want to take advantage of all its features, you have to shell out a one-time fee of $10 for the paid version. It stores your data locally instead of in the cloud, reducing the risk of hacking. There is also a USB stick version of the password manager.
5- Roboform
Roboform is available on almost every operating system out there including Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Chromebook, and Linux. The free version allows you to store as many passwords as you want. The Premium version costs $20 per year, $50 for three years, and $75 for five years. It automatically syncs your passwords across all your devices. Roboform's password generator tool is also impressive, generating passwords for websites that have specific password requirements.
4- Dashlane
Dashlane is a highly advanced and secure password manager. It's pretty easy to use, and is available on almost every operating system and web browser. Dashlane also allows users to store notes. The Premium version of Dashlane, which costs $40 per year, offers unlimited syncing and sharing. The free version is good enough for most users, offering a password storage vault, autofill, and digital wallet features. Dashlane is working on the Project Mirror, which aims to eliminate the need for passwords in the future. It also allows users to import passwords from browsers and other password managers.
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Keeper offers password solutions for individuals, families, and businesses. It's available on every major operating system and browser. It uses two-factor authentication to prevent hackers from gaining access to your Keeper vault. Keeper also allows users to restore previous versions of their records if something goes wrong. It also offers emergency access to passwords to up to five of your contacts. There is a free trial version of Keeper and a premium version that costs $25.5 per year.
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1Password is one of the most popular password managers in the world. It has a "Watchover" feature that notifies you when a website that you use (such as Facebook) experiences a data breach. It has an easy to use interface and an excellent password generator. You can save not only usernames and passwords but also credit card details, network passwords, and sticky notes. 1Password also serves as an authenticator app, eliminating the need for apps like Google Authenticator. It costs $35.88 per year.
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LastPass is the best password manager you can get your hands on. Its premium version costs $24 per year, though there is also a free version with limited features. Unfortunately, it doesn't offer a local vault, meaning you have to save your login details in the cloud. It's available on every major platform and web browser. When you import passwords to LastPass, it analyzes them to find out if any of your accounts have duplicate passwords or weak passwords. It's also incredibly easy to use.


Well, an interesting sideline that he has gotten into over the years, is refurbishing older green Massachusetts license plates.
Our own state of Massachusetts here, is actually the very first state in the United States, to issue motor vehicle license plates. It used to be that the plates only needed to be displayed on the back of the vehicle. Over the years, the state has been proactive in enacting laws regarding the registration and inspection of motor vehicles. The vehicle's license plate(s) are assessed as part of the required vehicle inspections, and if the plates are old and/or damaged and are deemed unreadable by at least 60 feet, the vehicle owner is required to get new plates, before it receives a passed inspection sticker.
If a motor vehicle has been issued front and rear license plates, which is typical, the vehicle must display both license plates issued by the Registry of Motor Vehicles on the front and rear of the vehicle. Older plates that have the green lettering, which were the former standard and issued as a single plate, must only be displayed as that one plate on the back of the vehicles. In 1988, Massachusetts began issuing red-lettered plates, which are issued as a set of two. If the newer red-letter plates are issued to the vehicle registrar, both must be displayed on both the front and back of the vehicle. However, the single green-lettered plate is acceptable by law, for as long as it is readable.
It is for this reason, that Michael has refurbished an increasing amount of green-lettered plates. There are a host of reasons why some vehicle owners want to keep their older plate, for as long as possible. For some, it is just a somewhat sentimental reason. One 50-something year old man told Michael that he has had the same license plate since he was 18 years old, and he just doesn't want to give it up. Others own hot rods, antique vehicles, or other show cars, and there is no place for a front plate, nor do they want it to 'blemish' the look of their car. Whatever the reason, if the plate is indeed salvageable, Michael is happy and capable of restoring them to their former beauty, if hired to do so.
Because it is a service he provides to aid in providing income for his family, he asked that I not show the whole step-by-step process. Still, I thought it might be an interesting little post, to share with you all the before and after of just one of his green-lettered Massachusetts license plate restoration jobs.
The condition of this particular plate when he received it, was a hot mess.
So the first thing he needs to do is strip the plate to bare metal and start from scratch.
Here it is, stripped. It's still a little beat up and whatnot, but a good new place to start.
All restored. It is 100% reflective as needed as well, just as they were originally.
I am aware and amused, that he is often needing to clean things up and make them look like new, while I spend some of my days working to make things look old, beaten up and quite used.
Have you ever had license plates that meant something to you? Have you ever been sad for the to need to get new ones, or was it exciting? And what I'd really love to know, is do you like the look of your state's plates? I'm not going to name names (of states, that is), but I've seen some ugly ones! I can't much complain about ours. You?
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Sharing in this post here, just some of Michael's vehicle lettering and graphics work for his Michael P. Richard Truck Lettering, Etc., clients from within the past several months.
How would you like to drive that bad boy around town?
With the 4 door/extended cab trucks being a popular vehicle for tradesman, Michael has been making use of the extra space for their business branding, as seen in the next couple of trucks, as opposed to keeping it all confined to the front door.
I say, bigger is better, when it comes to company branding.
Here below is a more standard can truck lettering job, with front door lettering only.
Still sharp looking, and eye catching though, with the black & white on red.
Earthshaping. I like that word!
Burkhardt Brothers…….Michael's Dad lettered this company's fleet of 40 foot trailers and box trucks for many, many, MANY years. But guess what? HE lettered it all IN PAINT, BY HAND! Michael helped for a few years, with his father. It's Michael's account now, but it is done in all cut vinyl these days. A whole lot faster for sure. But more impressive execution, back in the day. Think about it. Those capital B's on a trailer are like 30 inches tall!
This is Michael's brother-in-law's roofing company. Michael does all of his vehicle and sign work of course.
Michael's father designed the logo. I think its super sleek, and extra-so in gold.
– This a trailer for a la crosse team, all in vinyl. Michael did this in our driveway. The kids love to watch him work, and help sometimes, too.
These next 2 jobs are vehicle wraps. Have you noticed them around? It's basically a very large one piece vinyl print, that is shrink-wrapped onto the vehicle.
Here just the bed of the truck is wrapped.
Here, the entire trailer was done.
Wrapping takes some real practice and skill to apply, for sure.
But I think it is eye-catching, and effective marketing/branding for one's business.
Hope you enjoyed seeing some of Michael's latest work.
We just wanted to share some of it with you. Let him know what you think of this or that, in the comments! He'll be glad to read your feedback.
Michael here. Here is one of the most recent truck lettering jobs I have done. Plymouth Tire & Auto Service has been a customer of mine for about eight years now. I have lettered several trucks and did some signs for Steve over that time period. On this job Steve wanted me to design something different. Something that would catch the eye a bit more than the traditional door lettering that he had used in the past. So this is what I came up with.
This is a four color job with each color as an overlay on top of the red base color.
Below is closer look to show you the surface I had to work on with the second half of the name.
This took a bit more time to do as you can imagine.
Steve and his kids got a real kick out of "Bib" (the Michelin Man) in the back seat with his arm out the window.
I think the back speaks for itself. Thanks for taking a look.
I know some of you have been waiting to see how the truck lettering is prepared, before it goes on the trucks, but that's not this post yet. lol. He will do that at some point. But this is Laura, actually, blogging for Michael : ) I took photos of this job for Michael, not only because I like the layout, because I think this tow truck is adorable! Isn't it just CUTE?! It belongs to Performance Automotive, out of Plymouth. I love the red, and the tinted windows, too.
Also, I didn't think we posted a 2 color job yet. It's a sharp looking job.
Michael has been taking care of Performance Automotive for 10 years now.
So here's the door before lettering, obviously.
Lettering with outlines are done in 2 layers. What ends up being the 'outline' of the letter, is actually a bigger, solid letter under neath the top cut letters.
In the 3 photos above, he is positioning the first layer, which will be the lettering outline.
Now here, he is applying the lettering over the outline layer.
The blue is outlined in metallic silver. It's hard to see in a photo, but there is a bit of shimmer to metallic silver.
The kids got their rides in the cute tow truck, and the owner picked it up the next day, and was very happy with the job done, as always.
Hi Folks. This is Michael. : ) As I am sure we've mentioned before, my father was in this trade of signs and truck lettering for 52 years or so. Lipsett & Sons was a client of his for many, many years, until my father retired. I've had a business of my own (Michael P. Richard – Truck Lettering, Etc.), so when my father retired, a lot of his clients naturally came to me. Lipsett & Sons has been one of those accounts. Just since then, in late 2006, I have lettered for Lipsett, 3 service vans, 2 oil trucks, and 1 enclosed trailer.
The lettering for this truck I had already cut out. For existing accounts, I have the layouts I have created at a prior time, in my computer, for the various size and style trucks. But for new vehicles, I need to take measurements, and create a properly sized layout. Sometimes designing a logo in the process, for a new business. Once that layout is approved by the owners, we arrange for the lettering to be done on the vehicles.
So here's this one freshly painted and waiting, in my own driveway. I work from home whenever possible.
Then I cut the large pieces, just to make it easier to work with.
I lift it up, peel off the backing, bring it down straight and tight, and squeegie it down.
Then I remove the mask, and move on to the next.
On this particular job, they also want box striping all over.
The kids love to watch me work, and sometimes help! I still had the side you can't see, to do.
The striping really adds a little something. It looks sharp, as simple of a layout as it is.
See 2 of my kids in there? When I have to turn the truck around, to work on the shaded side, they love to take turns having a ride in the big trucks. Here above, the job was complete, and I was just turning the truck around, so that when the owners came to pick it up, they could just drive it out straight. But also, there were 2 kids who hadn't had a ride yet.
Thanks, Lipsett & Sons, for your continued business!


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We are focused on investments in the areas of our expertise:
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Our mission is to fund, grow and globalize the development of Poland's most promising early-stage high-technology ventures by leveraging this region's untapped scientific expertise, culture of entrepreneurship, low costs and rapidly expanding markets. We are passionate about transforming innovative ideas into market-leading companies on a global scale.
Our mission is to fund, grow and support the development of Poland's most promising early-stage high-technology ventures by leveraging this region's untapped scientific expertise, culture of entrepreneurship, low costs and rapidly expanding markets. We are passionate about transforming innovative ideas into market-leading companies. We support our companies with experience, relationships, vision and creativity to provide them advantage they need to win. Our partners have successfully built many ventures from the ground up and know first-hand what support a company needs at various levels of growth. This collective experience of our team provides a special leverage to the companies we back. Our relationships and experiences from the U.S. provide our companies a unique opportunity to expand their potential far beyond their initial target markets.
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Andrew is a civic and social entrepreneur, technology strategist, and Founder of Personal Democracy Media focusing on the intersection of technology, politics, and government. He recently founded Civic Hall, a 18,000 square foot community center and event space for civic innovation in the Flatiron District of New York City. He is the Chairman of the NY Tech Meetup, a 40,000+-member organization of technologists, venture funders, marketers, representing start up and more mature companies using technology to transform themselves, New York City, and the world. He is the Founder of MOUSE.org which focuses on 21st century public education. He is also Senior Technology Advisor to the Sunlight Foundation a Washington DC organization using technology to make government more transparent. Andrew was the creator of Irving Plaza, an internationally known concert venue. He then founded Digital Club Network, the first live music streaming and archiving channel on the internet; and, Plug-In, the first conference focused exclusively on the future of digital music distribution. Andrew holds a BFA from Cooper Union for Advancement and Science.
Esther is an acknowledged luminary in the online/information technology industry and the emerging information technology markets of Central and Eastern Europe. She is editor of Release 1.0, hosts the annual PC Forum conference and as an angel investor recently participated in the sale of Flickr to Yahoo!. She sits on the boards of many companies including WPP, EVDB, Meetup.com, NewspaperDirect (Canada), CV-Online (Hungary), Yandex (Russia). Esther is a trustee of the National Endowment for Democracy, Eurasia Foundation and Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 1998 to 2000 she was a founding chairman of ICANN (the organization responsible for overseeing the Internet's Domain Name System). Esther was one of the first technology and media investors in Poland through her venture fund EDventure Ventures, which was dedicated to active investment in software and information start-ups in Central and Eastern Europe. Its investments included New World Publishing (publisher of the Budapest, Warsaw and Prague Business Journals); Poland Online, an Internet based information services company recently sold to Poland's Softbank.
Wojtek manages a $1B hedge fund with focus on technology stocks, Between 2005 and 2011 Wojtek managed a $500M High-Tech fund at Duquesne Capital. Wojtek was a Senior Managing Director of Equity Research at Bear Sterns, covering telecom equipment sector. Prior to Bear Sterns, Wojtek was an analyst with SG Cowen in Boston. For a number of years he was a top-ranked equity analyst by the Wall Street Journal and Institutional Investor magazine. He is an investor in a number of ventures in Poland.
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Hedayat, Sadegh (1903–1951) By Tagharobi, Kaveh
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Sadegh Hedayat was an Iranian writer and intellectual who was responsible for introducing Modernism to Iranian literature. His short stories and novellas are the best examples of such literary forms in Persian literature, which up until then was exclusively defined by its old traditions of classical poetry. Hedayat also contributed to the Iranian experience of modernity by forming intellectual circles and promoting critical thinking on the norms and traditions of Iranian culture and society. While his main literary contributions were short stories and novellas, he also wrote plays, essays, satirical pieces, folklore studies, travelogues, and translated several works by European modernist authors into Persian. His own works, in turn, were translated into other languages. Most notably, his magnum opus The Blind Owl has been translated into some thirty languages, including French. Among the main themes running through his works are the absurdity of human existence, the psychological sufferings and alienation of modern characters, and the hypocrisy, follies, and tribulations of the traditional Iranian lower class. While in his twenties Hedayat spent some years in Europe, and during that time not only did he learn a great deal about Western culture, but this knowledge also gave him a deeper understanding of Iranian society and culture. He always maintained a sharp critical outlook toward his environment, and this was reflected in both his work and personal life.
Tagharobi, Kaveh. "Hedayat, Sadegh (1903–1951)." The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. : Taylor and Francis, 2016. Date Accessed 1 Feb. 2023 https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/hedayat-sadegh-1903-1951. doi:10.4324/9781135000356-REM1507-1
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How Statistical Science Can Advance Big Data Research Projects
September 18, 2014 by Daniel Gutierrez Leave a Comment
A recently released American Statistical Association (ASA) white paper recommends a multidisciplinary approach comprised of statisticians, mathematicians, data scientists and relevant domain scientists to tackle the challenges of the federal government's Big Data Research and Development Initiative and similar private-sector projects.
The audience for the free PDF white paper, titled Discovery with Data: Leveraging Statistics with Computer Science to Transform Science and Society, is anyone working with Big Data to advance their work—whether it be research, business or policy—including the private sector, academia and government. It was written by a dozen ASA members with expertise in Big Data.
The data science revolution is being powered by advances in statistics, computer science, applied mathematics and other fields. The ASA's Discovery with Data white paper makes it clear how essential these partnerships are. Science, society and our fields will all benefit," says Edward Lazowska, the Bill and Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington and one of the nearly 50 prominent members of the Big Data community who reviewed the document.
The ASA report notes, "Insight is required to distinguish meaningful signals from noise. The ability to explore data with skepticism is required to determine when systematic error is masquerading as a pattern of interest. The keys to such skeptical insight are rigorous data exploration, statistical inference and the understanding of variability and uncertainty. These keys are the heart of statistics and remain to be used to their full potential in Big Data research.
"Statistics—the science of learning from data and of measuring, controlling and communicating uncertainty—is the most mature of the data sciences. Over the last two centuries, particularly the last 30 years coinciding with the advent of large-scale computing, statistics has been an essential part of the social, natural, biomedical and physical sciences; engineering; and business analytics, among others.
"Statistical thinking not only helps make scientific discoveries, but it quantifies the reliability, reproducibility and general uncertainty associated with these discoveries. Because one can easily be fooled by complicated biases and patterns arising by chance, and because statistics has matured around making discoveries from data, statistical thinking will be integral to Big Data challenges," the paper continues.
Cynthia Rudin, associate professor of statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, chaired the ASA Big Data R&D Initiative Work Group that wrote the white paper. She recently presented at the KDD 2014 Conference, which was themed "Data Mining for Social Good."
There was tremendous excitement at the event for how statistics is changing the world, with applications ranging from reducing parking congestion in Los Angeles to identifying impoverished villages in Africa from aerial photographs," she explains. "I also was struck by the huge demand for statisticians and data scientists by organizations in the public and private sectors; many companies are hiring. KDD 2014 demonstrates that the themes of the ASA's Data with Discovery white paper are resonating now more than ever and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future."
The ASA report offers examples of several scientific and medical research areas to which statistics has contributed. Following are select examples:
Biological Sciences/Bioinformatics – Biology has changed from a data-poor discipline to a data-intensive one. Today, biologists regularly sift through large data sets. Furthermore, many outcomes of interest, such as gene expression, are dynamic quantities. The complexity is further exacerbated by cutting-edge, yet unpolished, technologies producing measurements noisier than anticipated. This complexity and level of variability makes statistical thinking an indispensable aspect of the analysis. The biologists are now seeking statisticians as collaborators, and these collaborations have led to, among other things, the development of breast cancer recurrence gene expression assays that identify patients at risk of distant recurrence following surgery.
Health Care and Public Health – Personalized predictions of disease risk, as well as time to onset, progression or disease-related adverse events, has the potential to revolutionize clinical practice. Such predictions are important in the context of mental health, cancer, autoimmune disorders, diabetes, inflammatory bowel diseases, and stroke and organ transplants, among others. Statisticians are using huge amounts of medical data to make personalized predictions of disease risk, understand the benefits and harms of drugs and other treatments in addition to environmental factors, analyze the quality of care and understand changing health trends.
Societal Benefit – Statistics and data mining for crime analysis and predictive policing have had a major impact on the way police patrol in major cities and respond to domestic violence cases, sentencing and crime policy. Statistics was used to demonstrate improved efficiency and better performance for the electric utility grid. Statisticians also have made important contributions on the challenges of measuring traffic and civic infrastructure maintenance. Last, statisticians have made great progress toward public use of government microdata with synthetic data techniques to protect respondents' privacy.
Social Sciences – Statistics was central to new United Nations population and fertility probabilistic projections obtained by combining demographic models with Bayesian methods. These methods were central to producing projections released by the UN that influence national policies worldwide. The large-scale field experiments that revolutionized political campaigns are another example in which statistical methods to adjust for noncompliance were critical. Last, statistics was central to research deducing the behavior of individual group members, work that has subsequently been used in litigation by both sides in every state over the Voting Rights Act.
The ASA Big Data paper ends with a call for more ambitious incentives for multidisciplinary teams to address challenges to Big Data and other research priorities and federal attention to attracting and retaining the next generation of statisticians. Multidisciplinary teams—with each discipline having much to learn from the other—will ensure the best science is brought to bear, help to avoid reinvention of existing techniques from the contributing data science disciplines and spur development of new theories and approaches. "The history of statistics shows how statisticians have engaged in interdisciplinary research, and how that engagement advanced domain sciences, informed policy and provided new insights.… Today, statisticians continue to contribute expertise to a growing range of scientific and social problems. Their training and experience in collaborative research make them the natural leaders of interdisciplinary teams.… However, the Big Data era is marked by an ever-growing class of truly important and hard interdisciplinary problems where more engagement would be widely productive," the paper stresses.
"Big Data challenges at the interface of statistics and computer science highlight where statistical thinking is required and multidisciplinary teams involving statisticians important. Statistical thinking fuels the cross-fertilization of ideas between scientific fields, industry and government. Further engagement of statisticians and cutting-edge statistics, as one of the core data science disciplines, will help advance the aims of the administration's Big Data Initiative. In the work of OSTP, NSF and other federal agencies to address STEM workforce issues, we strongly encourage attention to attracting and retaining the next generation of statisticians, especially those who can work seamlessly across disciplines. The statisticians engaged in interdisciplinary research involving Big Data will need to be computationally savvy, possessing expertise in statistical principles and an understanding of algorithmic complexity, computational cost, basic computer architecture and the basics of both software engineering principles and handling/management of large-scale data," the paper concludes.
The paper lists nearly 50 prominent members of the Big Data community—including computer scientists, statisticians and data scientists—who reviewed the document.
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Chick Corea & McCoy Tyner: Piano Duo
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Nathan Milstein and the Bach Chaconne
On 17 July 1986, Nathan Milstein played his last public recital in the Berwaldhallen in Stockholm. The recital included the Bach Chaconne, one of the towering masterpieces of Western music and one of the most difficult to do justice to. Milstein was…
In 1808 the composer and violinist Louis Spohr was invited to a rehearsal in Beethoven's house of the D Major Piano Trio, Opus 70, No.1 known as The Ghost, and wrote of the occasion: "It was not an enjoyable experience. First of all the piano was…
The Sound of New York: Bilal
Bilal came up in Germantown, a northwest neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A deep interest in jazz was fostered by his father, who took him to the city's clubs, singing eventually became more than an interest. He attended New York's new…
The Sound of New York: Greg Osby
Greg Osby alto saxophonist, producer, composer and educator has made an indelible mark on contemporary jazz as a leader of his own ensembles and as a guest artist with many other acclaimed jazz groups, notably Jack DeJohnnette's "special edition"…
The Sound of New York: Theo Croker
Theo Croker was born and raised in central Florida but at the age of eleven he heard his grandfather Doc Cheatham (a great jazz trumpeter) playing in New York. Doc died the following year but Theo continued to listen to his recordings. "i would just…
The Sound of New York: Gerald Clayton
"I was always attracted to different types of melodies, harmonies and grooves. Combining those influences is a matter of getting in touch with the spirit and emotions in the music, and trying to convey those same emotions with honesty. I don't care…
The Sound of New York: Mark Turner
A New York times profile of Mark Turner titled "the best Jazz player you've never heard" called him "possibly Jazz's premier player", noting his reputation among his peers and his influential stature in the Jazz world. Born in Fairborn, Ohio, and…
The Sound of New York: Stefon Harris
Stefon Harris passionate artistry, energetic stage presence, and astonishing virtuosity have propelled him into the forefront of the current jazz scene. Widely recognized and lauded by both his peers and jazz critics, Harris is committed to exploring…