Pascal Rey met Sogyal Rinpoche in 1997. Rinpoche’s book, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, had a tremendous impact on him. He has received many teachings and transmissions from visiting lamas in Lerab Ling, Rigpa’s retreat centre in southern France, from 1999 to the present day, and completed Rigpa’s 2006–2009 Three Year Retreat.

Pascal has been a ritual and shrine master (chöpön) in the Vajrayana ritual practices for 10 years. In 2014 he became Rigpa’s chant leader (umdzé) after receiving training in Chokling Monastery and Dodrupchen Rinpoche’s monastery.

More recently, he has been working on the adaptation of Tibetan Vajrayana rituals and liturgies into Western languages and music.