Dear Friends! We are delighted to share a very special prayer with you. In 2006, Yongdzin Rinpoche gave us this short invocation to Lamhla, the Goddess of the Path, and we translated it together. The image of Lamhla is a photo from an old tsakali somewhere in Tibet, taken by Ans Swart. We have edited the translation and added the original Tibetan and phonetic transliteration. This short prayer can be recited as a short sang offering. The image and prayer can be kept on your mobile or tablet etc. It can be scaled to any size and printed back-to-back, any…
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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, 25 January 2024, marks the 18041th anniversary of the First Deed of Yungdrung Bön’s Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche (Tib. Ston pa Gshen rab Mi bo che) – the Deed of…
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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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