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Category: FPYB Short Teachings

91st Anniversary of Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen’s Rainbow Body

9th June 2025

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

22nd March 2025

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

3rd February 2025

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.

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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