I ran across the word, "rinpoche", in a quote in Peter Shweizer's book, Do As I Say, Not
> As I Do. It is in a list of terms like "rabbi", "preacher", "sensei", and so
> on. Amazingly, it's not in the Random House dictionary.
>
> Does anyone have a definition?
>
> - Stuart Brown
> San Rafael, CA

here's what the Wikipedia has to say:

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Rinpoche or Rimpoche (pronounced: rin-PO-shay) is a Tibetan Buddhist religious/theological honorific title.

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more at: Rinpoche

welcome, houston!