Foundation for the Preservation of Yungdrung Bön / གཡུང་དྲུང་བོན་ཉར་ཚགས་རིག་མཛོད།

Category: FPYB Short Teachings

New page: Prayers & Practices

Over the past few years we have translated many prayers and practices into English, and today we have finally collected them into one place on our website, the new Prayers & Practices page. Most are offered gratis as a PDF download and all are available publicly. This new page includes several of the prayers that practitioners are encouraged to recite during this special 49-day period. Where possible, we have also provided links to videos of Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim chanting the longer recitations. As previously, information about restricted practice materials can be found on our Publications page. We will keep the…
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Short Drenpa Namkha Tsog now publicly available

Since Khenpo Tenpa Yungdrung Rinpoche advised practising this tsog as one of the main practices to be done during the 49-day period following Yongdzin Rinpoche’s entering thugdam on 12th June, 2025, we are now releasing this practice in both eBook and printed public formats, making it available to devoted practitioners who have not yet received transmission so that everyone can do it during this period. Nevertheless, it is strongly advised to receive transmission and instructions for this tsog from a qualified Bönpo lama as soon as possible. The Accomplishment Practice of Khöpung༼ །ཁོད་སྤུངས་སྒོས་སྒྲུབ་བཞུགས། ༽ (p. 7–10) includes the heart mantra…
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91st Anniversary of Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen’s Rainbow Body

RIG-GYAI CHYI-PAL KÜN-CHYEN SHAR-DZA-PA རིགས་རྒྱའི་སྤྱི་དཔལ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཤར་རྫ་པ། O, Splendour of the Universe, Omniscient Shardzapa PHO-CHEN-JA-LÜ WÖ DU DENG NA YANG འཕོ་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 NAM བདག་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 DZÖ ཐུགས་རྗེས་འདོར་མེད་དགོངས་རྒྱུད་འཕོ་པར་མཛོད། Through your compassion, please enable us to enter the unwavering Buddha-Mind! Translated by Dmitry Ermakov. Today is the 91st anniversary of the great Bönpo master Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen’s (Shar-rdza Bkra-shis rgyal-mtshan) realisation of Rainbow Body, which he achieved on the 13th day of the 4th month of the Wood…
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Drenpa Namkha Intensive Practice

Today, 22nd March 2025, the monks of Drubdra School at Triten Norbutse Bönpo Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal, begin a seven days and one night intensive practice of THE SECRET PRACTICE OF KHÖPUNG DRENPA’S INNERMOST ESSENCE / ཁོད་སྤུངས་དྲན་པའི་སྙིང་ཐིག་གསང་སྒྲུབ་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་པ་ལེགས་སོ།། led by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin. This is a good opportunity for us lay practitioners to connect with the great sage Drenpa Namkha, too. c Photos: Carol Ermakova & Dmitry Ermakov. Drenpa Namkha at Jarsing Pauwa. Video by D. Ermakov. Those who received face to face transmission and explanations for this practice can join from their home. If you don’t have the text, please…
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Explanation of the short Long-Life Practice of Drenpa Namkha Yab-Yum Tsedrub

As part of the Centenary Celebrations for Yongdzin Rinpoche, a four-day ritual of Drenpa Namkha’s Yab-Yum Tsedrub is being performed in Triten Norbutse Monastery, Kathmandu. On the first day, Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin kindly gave the lung-transmission and a detailed explanation of the short version of this practice. The edited transcript of these teachings is freely available. Please click the link below.

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