Foundation for the Preservation of Yungdrung Bön / གཡུང་དྲུང་བོན་ཉར་ཚགས་རིག་མཛོད།

Month: June 2025

New page: Prayers & Practices

Over the past few years we have translated many prayers and practices into English, and today we have finally collected them into one place on our website, the new Prayers & Practices page. Most are offered gratis as a PDF download and all are available publicly. This new page includes several of the prayers that practitioners are encouraged to recite during this special 49-day period. Where possible, we have also provided links to videos of Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim chanting the longer recitations. As previously, information about restricted practice materials can be found on our Publications page. We will keep the…
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Short Drenpa Namkha Tsog now publicly available

Since Khenpo Tenpa Yungdrung Rinpoche advised practising this tsog as one of the main practices to be done during the 49-day period following Yongdzin Rinpoche’s entering thugdam on 12th June, 2025, we are now releasing this practice in both eBook and printed public formats, making it available to devoted practitioners who have not yet received transmission so that everyone can do it during this period. Nevertheless, it is strongly advised to receive transmission and instructions for this tsog from a qualified Bönpo lama as soon as possible. The Accomplishment Practice of Khöpung༼ །ཁོད་སྤུངས་སྒོས་སྒྲུབ་བཞུགས། ༽ (p. 7–10) includes the heart mantra…
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Prayers to recite on the occasion of Yongdzin Rinpoche entering thugdam

Dear friends, Many of you have asked us  what practice we can do during this period following the passing of Yongdzin Rinpoche. Triten Norbutse Monastery may issue some guidance in the following days but, generally, one can do Guru Yoga with the following invocation: ཨེ་མ་ཧོ། EMAHO Marvellous! བསླབ་གསུམ་བསྟན་པའི་བདག་ཉིད་འགྲོ་བའི་མགོན། LAB SUM TEN PAI DAG NYI DRO WAI GÖN Oh, Lord of the Doctrine of the Three Trainings and the Protector of beings, ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཉི་དབང་རྣམ་རོལ་དགོངས་རྩལ་རྫོགས། KÜN CHYEN NYI WANG NAM ROL GONG TSAL DZOG the emanation of the omniscient Nyima Tenzin Wanggi Gyalpo with perfect Power and Knowledge! མདོ་སྡེ་སྔགས་ཀྱི་གནས་ལུགས་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེ། DÖ DE NGAG CHYI…
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Gone to Great Bliss

It is with the greatest sorrow yet profound gratitude that we share the news of Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche entering thugdam.

91st Anniversary of Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen’s Rainbow Body

RIG-GYAI CHYI-PAL KÜN-CHYEN SHAR-DZA-PA རིགས་རྒྱའི་སྤྱི་དཔལ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཤར་རྫ་པ། O, Splendour of the Universe, Omniscient Shardzapa PHO-CHEN-JA-LÜ WÖ DU DENG NA YANG འཕོ་ཆེན་འཇའ་ལུས་འོད་དུ་དེངས་ན་ཡང་།  You who have gone into the Luminous Rainbow Body of Great Transfer – DAG-SOG RIG-CHEN SOL-WA-TAB-PA NAM བདག་སོགས་རིགས་ཅན་གསོལ་བ་བཏབ་པ་རྣམས།།  I and all fortunate followers pray to you: THUG-JE’E DOR-ME GONG-GYU PHO-PAR DZÖ ཐུགས་རྗེས་འདོར་མེད་དགོངས་རྒྱུད་འཕོ་པར་མཛོད། Through your compassion, please enable us to enter the unwavering Buddha-Mind! Translated by Dmitry Ermakov. Today is the 91st anniversary of the great Bönpo master Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen’s (Shar-rdza Bkra-shis rgyal-mtshan) realisation of Rainbow Body, which he achieved on the 13th day of the 4th month of the Wood…
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