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Anniversary of Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche’s Parinirvana

13th November 2023

Today is the Anniversary of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche (Tib. Rgyal-ba Ston-pa Gshen-rab Mi-bo-che) completing the Twelfth Deed, The Deed of Realisation (Tib. rnam-par grub-pa’i mdzad-pa), when he achieved nyangen ledepa (Tib. mya-ngan las’das-pa) or parinirvana in 7817 BC, 9,840 years ago. 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. འཁོར་བའི་འདམ་ཀེམས་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཉི་འོད་ཆེ། KHOR-WAI DAM KEM YE-SHE NYI-WÖ-CHE Your Wisdom Light dries the swamps of samsara. རིགས་དྲུག་བདེར་འཁོད་ཨུད་འབར་རྒྱན་གཅིག་པོ། RIG-DRUG…
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Mucho Demdrug Turning the Wheel of Bön

29th September 2023

Today is the anniversary of when Mucho Demdrug (Tib. Mu-cho ldem-drug), one of the seven sons of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche, turned the Wheel of Bön.

Anniversary of Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen’s Rainbow Body

2nd June 2023

RIG-GYAI CHYI-PAL KÜN-CHYEN SHAR-DZA-PAརིགས་རྒྱའི་སྤྱི་དཔལ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཤར་རྫ་པ།O, Splendour of the Universe, Omniscient Shardzapa PHO-CHEN-JA-LÜ WÖ DU DENG NA YANGའཕོ་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 NAMབདག་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 DZÖཐུགས་རྗེས་འདོར་མེད་དགོངས་རྒྱུད་འཕོ་པར་མཛོད།Through your compassion, please enable us to enter the unwavering Buddha-Mind! Translated by Dmitry Ermakov, 2023 Today is the anniversary of the great Bönpo master Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen (Shar-rdza Bkra-shis rgyal-mtshan), who attained Rainbow Body on the 13th day of the 4th month of the Wood Dog Year, 1934. Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934) was a great Bönpo…
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Why do we take rebirth as an ordinary sentient being?

17th May 2023

I have already taught something about this Basic Nature. When a thought appears from there and you look towards that thought, the thought disappears and there is a clear presence. Soon afterwards, a thought arises. If you follow the thought and immediately judge it as good or bad or something, then you forget where it is coming from, you forget the source. When you see anything, when an object arises, when for instance something interesting comes, you immediately perceive it as interesting and follow it, and that leads to desire. If on the other hand the objects are not very…
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Mucho Demdrug and Doctrine of Speech

9th October 2022

Today is the anniversary of when Mucho Demdrug (Tib. Mu-cho ldem-drug), one of the seven sons of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche, turned the Wheel of Bön. When Tönpa Shenrab passed into nyangen ledepa (Tib. mya-ngan las-‘das-pa – parinirvana) in 7817 BC, Mucho Demdrug became Tönpa Shenrab’s Regent (Tib. gdung-sob). He descended on Earth from the realm of Cha (Tib. phywa) when the period of the Teachings of Body (Tib. sku-yi bstan-pa) was completed in 6016 BC and took charge of the Yungdrung Bön doctrines and their propagation in the new 10,000-year cycle of the Teachings of Speech (Tib. gsungs-gi bstan-pa).…
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