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

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18040th Anniversary of Tönpa Shenrab Miwo’s Birth and Birthday of  Kongtsa Yungdrung Wangden

Tönpa Shenrab – whose original name was Mura Tahen (Tib. Dmu-ra ta-han) – was born on the fifteenth day of the first month of Spring (Tib. me-stag-gi zla-ba) in the country of Olmo Lungring (Tib. ‘Ol-mo lung-ring), the central region of the larger country of Tagzig (Tib. Rtag-gzigs/Stag-gzig). It was in the Wood Male Mouse Year i.e. in 16,017 BC according to traditional Bönpo Chronology (Tib. Bstan-rtsis). So this year marks the 18040th anniversary of the First Deed of Yungdrung Bön’s Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche (Tib. Ston pa Gshen rab Mi bo che) – the Deed of Birth (Tib. Sku…
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Problem with Contact Forms for Restricted Materials

Dear Friends! We have just discovered that our Order Form is not working. If you have recently tried to contact us about ordering the divination manual Mirror of Clairvoyance or wish to get any other restricted materials, please email us directly at: fpyb [a] yungdrungbon.co.uk We are working on resolving the problem and will put up a notice when it is fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience! FPYB team

Bönpo Divination Manual

Today FPYB published ༄༅།།སྲིད་རྒྱལ་དུས་དྲུག་གི་མངོན་ཤེས་མེ་ལོང་བཞུགས། / MIRROR OF CLAIRVOYANCE OF THE SIX EMANATIONS OF SIPAI GYALMO, a bilingual Tibetan-English edition of a divination manual. This divination is connected with the Six Emanations of Sipai Gyalmo, the main Guardian of Yungdrung Bön, and can be done using your mala, a die or by writing your question on earth or paper and arriving at the answer through a mathematical calculation. This text was translated in 2008 by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin, Geshe Tenzin Yangtön, Carol Ermakova and Dmitry Ermakov in Kathmandu but was never published. It was revised in 2022 and the original…
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Guru Yoga & Prayer to the Great Master Tapihritsa

Winter Holidays are upon us and so we send many greetings and wishes for good fortune, prosperity and progress in practice to all our friends! Whether you are just chilling out or busy celebrating with family and friends, a practitioner can and should integrate with any circumstances. The best way to stay connected with the essence of practice is to do Guru Yoga. So as a holiday gift, we are offering a download of རྗེ་ཏ་པི་ཧྲི་ཙའི་གསོལ་འདེབས། / PRAYER TO THE GREAT MASTER TAPIHRITSA (translated by Yongdzin Rinpoche & Dmitry Ermakov) as well as a video of Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin chanting…
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Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwo passes into Nirvana

Today, the 30th day of the 9th Hortsi lunar month (10th month according to Zhang Zhung system) is the anniversary of passing into nirvana of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwo. One can recite Tsewang Mönlam, remain in the contemplation of Natural State, perform Tsogchö or any other practice one is familiar with. The merits multiply 100,000 times. དེ་རིང་སྟོན་པའི་འདས་མཆོད་ཡིན་པ། (Image: Tönpa Shenrab, from illustrated Gzi brjid manuscript in Berlin State Library )

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