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

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First Anniversary of Yongdzin Rinpoche’s Passing into Great Bliss

Tomorrow, 16th day of the 4th Tibetan month, marks one year since Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche entered the state of tugdam and passed into Great Bliss. Photo by Carol Ermakova. In his monastery Triten Norbutse in Kathmandu, the monks, nuns and lay practitioners are devoting two days to commemorating this occasion, with rituals, prayers and devotion being offered in all the monastery temples. Holy Relics Two new chorten now house Yongdzin Rinpoche’s holy relics. Built on top of the structure constructed for the cremation last August, the 3-storey dungkhang contains 3 mandalas and an eternal flame behind glass panels…
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Quattro nuovi libri in italiano / Four new books in Italian

Dopo mesi di intenso lavoro, abbiamo recentemente pubblicato quattro nuovi libri sul Bön in italiano. I libri sono stati presentati in occasione del ritiro Jadral Jeme con Gomdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin a Perugia, in Italia, dal 15 al 18 maggio 2026. Un sentito ringraziamento a Paola Malatesta, Massimo Rabassini e Simonetta Cisci. Abbiamo quindi ora undici titoli disponibili in italiano, una selezione di insegnamenti dello Dzogchen, preghiere e pratiche, oltre a materiale per i principianti @ https://yungdrungbon.co.uk/publications/#libri-in-italiano After months of intense work we recently published four new Bönpo books in Italian. The book were launched during the Jadral Jeme retreat…
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Anniversary of Yongdzin Rinpoche’s Paranirvana: 12th June, 2026

Dear friends, A year has passed since our beloved Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche entered the meditative state of Thugdam and passed into Great Bliss. While we all miss him very much, his presence, teachings and blessings never wane. Photo: Celestial manifestation during the cremation at Triten Norbutse Monastery © Carol Ermakova, 2026. To commemorate this occasion, FPYB have collaborated with Congregation Shenten Dargye Ling to prepare a revised edition of the Drenpa Namkha Tsog compiled and translated by Yongdzin Rinpoche himself with Carol and Dmitry. Khenpo Gelek asked us to translate 5 additional texts, so earlier this month the…
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New book of essential Dzogchen teachings

We are delighted to bring you a new book of essential Dzogchen teachings! The fruit of two retreats led by Gomdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin in Tuscany, Italy, Spreading Supreme Wisdom is a meticulously edited transcript of Khenpo’s detailed teachings on a truly special text – Spreading Supreme Wisdom: Concise Explanation and Commentary on the Supplication Prayer to Lord Tapihritsa, Mind Emanation of Kuntu Zangpo / རྗེ་ཏ་པི་ཧྲི་ཙའི་གསོལ་འདེབས་ཀུན་བཟང་ཐུགས་སྤྲུལ་མའི་འགྲེལ་བ་མདོར་བསྡུས་ཤིག་བཀོད་པ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རབ་འཕེལ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། by Chyabje Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche. In this Commentary, Yongdzin Rinpoche reveals the profound meaning behind the Prayer to the Great Master Tapihritsa uttered by Gyerpung Nangzher Lödpo during his first encounter with…
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Non-doing that Leaves No Trace – new revised edition of Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche’s teachings on Jadral Jeme

Basic Nature is unchangeable. The Path is unconfused. The Fruit is non-changing and beyond any activities. The way to remain in and practise this Nature is to simply leave it as it is without modifying, fabricating or mixing anything. Dear Friends! We are delighted to share with you a new revised edition of Yongdzin Lopon Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche’s teachings on Jadral Jeme (Bya bral rjes med / བྱ་བྲལ་རྗེས་མེད): Non-doing that leaves No Trace. These teachings are from the Exceedingly Secret section of the Zhang Zhung Nyengyu Dzogchen cycle (Yang gsang gnas lugs phugs chod / ཡང་གསང་གནས་ལུགས་ཕུགས་ཆོད།) and Rinpoche taught them…
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