On the occasion of the visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Paris in October 2003, Sogyal Rinpoche gave this memorable talk on the Tibetan Buddhist understanding of life and and death to an audience of over 3,000 people.

In the first part of this talk, Rinpoche talks understanding death and impermanence, and how that can lead us to the most important discovery of life, to ‘the deathless, unending nature of mind’, which he reads about from Chapter 3 of The Tibetan book of Living and Dying.

Parts two and three of this talk will be posted in the coming weeks.

This talk is also available as an audio podcast which you can find on our Audio page.