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Celebration of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche’s Parinirvana

1st December 2024

Today, the 30th day of the 9th month according to the Horda calendar, we are celebrating 9,141th anniversary of Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche’s Paranirvana or Nyangen Ledepa. Through his life and teachings, Buddha of Yungdrung Bön Tönpa Shenrab showed us the way from suffering to contentment, from strife to peace, and from anguish to ultimate Buddhahood. E Ma Ho! PRAYER TO TÖNPA SHENRAB MIWOCHE ཨེ་མ་ཧོ། E-MA-HO! Wonderful! མ་རིག་བློ་ཡི་མུན་སེལ་སྒྲོན་མའི་མཆོག། MA-RIG LO YI MÜN-SEL DRON-MAI CHOG O Supreme Lamp of Mind which clears away darkness, ཉོན་མོངས་ནད་སེལ་འཕྲུལ་ངག་བདུད་རྩིའི་སྨན། NYON-MONG NE-SEL THRUL NGAG DÜD-TSI-MEN Your Speech is the supreme medicine which cures the afflictions of emotions.…
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Lusang: Sang for the Lu

15th November 2024

Today we are pleased to offer a new booklet, Lusang: Sang for the Lu, a short but powerful ritual for purifying and pacifying the Lu (klu) or Nagas, water spirits, and asking them for assistance, healing and prosperity.   The Lu can be rather cantankerous so it is important to appease them and atone for any disturbances we may have inadvertently caused them through offering sang (bsang). However, not every day is a good day for this, and it is crucial to make sure you perform this ritual on an auspicious day. Therefore, as well as translating the text itself…
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Khandro Sangchöd – Secret Chöd of the Khandro

8th November 2024

We are pleased to share this wonderful rare video from 2006 made by Prof. Donatella Rossi. It shows Menri Pönlob Trinle Nyima Rinpoche giving explanations on Chöd and Bönpo nuns of Yungdrungkha nunnnery, Tibet, performing the Khandro Sangchöd Unified Daily Ritual. We are very happy to continue collaborating with Prof. Donatella Rossi of La Sapienza University, Rome, to preserve the rich ancient traditions of Yungdrung Bön. Many thanks also to Koos van der Velde of FPYB for converting and restoring the original recording. Language: Tibetan with English subtitles. Credits: Footage: Donatella Rossi (interview), Francesco Maniscalco (ritual) Editing: Daniele Pecorelli Music:…
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Nuova collana di libri in italiano / New book series in Italian

29th October 2024

Siamo lieti di annunciare che la FPYB ha ora una nuova pagina web per i libri Bönpo in italiano @ https://yungdrungbon.co.uk/publications/#libri-in-italiano! Tre titoli sono già disponibili e molti altri sono in arrivo. Per ordinare la vostra copia, basta cliccare sul link che vi porterà all’e-mail della Libreria Nuova Avventura che li ha in vendita, oppure a Paola Malatesta che cura i testi di pratica. Si ringraziano Lidia Castellano e Paola per le traduzioni, Massimo Rabassini per la correzione delle bozze, Lorenzo Spadoni e Dmitry Ermakov per l’impaginazione e il design. We are delighted to announce that FPYB now has a…
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Drubdra Khenpo in Italy: Dzogchen, Tummo and more

13th October 2024

We were delighted to host Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin in Italy for an intense two weeks of teachings, practice, university lectures, book presentations and shared experiences. After a couple of days exploring the sea and mountains in Tuscany, Drubdra Khenpo headed down to Rome at the invitation of Professor Donatella Rossi for a lecture at La Sapienza, Europe’s largest university. Khenpo-lags gave a detailed exposition on the Nine Ways of Bön which was well attended both at the university and online. We also enjoyed a whistlestop tour of some of Rome’s historic sites, including St. Peters and the Colosseum. Back…
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