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Category: FPYB Short Teachings

Practice during total solar eclipse

11th August 2026

Tomorrow there is a total solar eclipse. It will begin at 18:17 UK time and will reach its maximum at around 19:12 before ending at about 20:06 UK time. It is said that during a solar eclipse (not the whole day), merits are multiplied 100 millionfold. Yongdzin Rinpoche taught us how to practise duirng this special time, saying that is very important to recite །ཚེ་དབང་སྨོན་ལམ་དོན་འདུས་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲེང་བ་བཞུགས། The Precious Mala: A Collection of Aspirational Prayers, also known as Tsewang Mönlam and then remain in the Natural State. To support our fellow Bönpo practitioners, we have made this prayer available GRATIS HERE.

Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche’s teaching on Drenpa Namkha, Wels, Austria, 1995

24th July 2026

The First Drenpa Namkha, of Tagzig There are three Drenpa Namkhas.[1] They all have the same name. The first is very early. He was miraculously self-born on a lotus.[2] It says that he was born in a place called Tagzig.[3] In ancient times, that was a very big country. Maybe it included Afghanistan, too. In our text, it says Tajik and then Kashmir. Kashmir is translated into Tibetan as Kache.[4] These countries are quite closely joined. So this first Drenpa Namkha was there. Not much is known about this one. We only have a few short prayers, and they say…
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Yongdzin Rinpoche’s Birth Anniversary – The meaning of the word ‘lama’

3rd March 2026

Today, on the 15th day in the 2nd month in the Shen system (15th day of the 1st month in the Horda system) we celebrate the birthday anniversary of one of the greatest lamas of the 20th-21st centuries, Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, the Supreme Teacher of the Yungdrung Bön tradition. Yongdzin Rinpoche was an incredible scholar and practitioner endowed with immeasurable compassion and wisdom. He dedicated his life to the restoration, preservation and dissemination of Yungdrung Bön, saving it from serious damage during yet another persecution, the Cultural Revolution. Thanks to his unbendable deep devotion, profound knowledge of Tönpa…
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Anniversary of Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen (1356-1415) – རྗེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་དུས་ཆེན།

22nd February 2026

རྗེ་མཉམ་མེད་ཆེན་པོའི་གསོལ་འདེབ། Prayer to Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen བདེ་ཆེན་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཀུན་བཟང་རྒྱལ་བ་འདུས། DEC-HEN GYAL-PO KUN-ZANG GYAL-WA DÜKing of Great Bliss, who embodies the Knowledge of all the Buddhas, མི་བརྗེད་བཟུངས་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་སྨྲ་བའི་སེང་། MI-JE ZUNG-DEN SHE-RAB MA-WAI SENGLion of Speech, Mawai Senge with infallible memory, འཛམ་གླིང་བོན་གྱི་གཙུག་རྒྱན་མཉམ་མེད་པ། DZAM-LING BÖN GYI TSUG-GYEN NYAM-ME-PAOrnament of Bön unequalled in the world, ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ཞབས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། SHE-RAB GYAL-TSEN ZHAB LA SOL-WA-DEBO Great Sherab Gyaltsen, to you I pray! Taken from དབང་གི་དམ་ཚིག་བསྐང་བའི་ཞལ་འདོན་ཕྱོགས་བསྡུས། Translation: FPYB On the fifth day of the first lunar month according to the Tibetan calendar Bönpos celebrate the anniversary of Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen (Tib. Mnyam-med Shes-rab rgyal-mtshan), a reincarnation of an early Bönpo mahasiddha (Tib.…
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Shenhla Wökar and the Six Devourers

23rd December 2025

This explanation is based on teachings given by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin during a retreat on Athri held in Calabria, Italy, September 2025. Transcribed and edited by Carol Ermakova & Dmitry Ermakov. Nine Manners of Purity Shenhla Wökar[1] (see cover image above) is a peaceful manifestation, and like other emanations such as Jamma,[2] the features of his body, decorations and so on all hold special meaning. He displays the Nine Manners of Purity[3] and is adorned with the Thirteen Adornments of a peaceful sambhogakaya.[4] His body is: 1. youthful 2. bright 3. luminous 4. with a clear lustre. His manner…
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