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Category: FPYB Short Teachings

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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A word on euthanasia from Yongdzin Rinpoche

30th November 2024

Yesterday MPs in the UK Parliament voted in favour of the so-called “assisted dying bill” aka euthanasia. Yongdzin Rinpoche was asked about this during a retreat in Paris in April 1997 when he was teaching on Nyamzhag Gompai Laglen (Tib. Mnyam bzhag sgom pa’i lag len). Here is his response: Q: (a question about euthanasia)A: If someone is dying, terminally ill, it is better not to kill him or her or let them commit suicide because they haven’t worked through their karma yet. You should never kill. A painkiller is not an antidote to karmic cause, it can only alleviate some pain…
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Тöнпа Шенраб Миво и Будда Шакьямуни

24th June 2024

Сегодня опубликован перевод краткого Учения Йонгдзина Ринпоче о связи Будды Тöнпа Шенраба Миво и Будды Шакьямуни, как это объясняется в текстах традиции юнгдрунг бöн.

Prayer & Offering to Lamhla, Goddess of the Path

9th February 2024

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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18041th Anniversary of Tönpa Shenrab Miwo’s Birth and Birthday of Kongtsa Yungdrung Wangden

25th January 2024

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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