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This year many sangha members, friends and scholars have gathered in Triten Norbutse Bonpo Monastery, Kathmandu, to celebrate Yongdzin Rinpoche’s 100th birthday. Zhang Zhung Losar The festivities began with a joyful 2-day event marking Zhang Zhung Losar, with many songs, feasting and much laughter as well as offerings of sangchӧ and auspicious prayers. Four days of intensive rituals For four full days, rituals were held in two of the monastery’s largest halls, the New Temple, and the Assembly Hall. The practitioners in the New Temple followed the rab ne consecration ritual while those packed into the Assembly Hall recited the Read more

Today, the18042nd Anniversary of Buddha Tӧnpa Shenrab’s birth is being celebrated in Triten Norbutse Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal and many Bӧnpo centres and communities in Tibet and all over the world. On this  day it is very auspicious to recite Tӧnpa Shenrab’s prayer composed by Lachen Drenpa Namkha, which you can download below: Download Prayer to Tӧnpa Shenrab And here is an article on the Twelve Deeds of Tӧnpa Shenrab which starts with the First Deed, The Deed of Birth: READ ARTICLE Read more

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. Explanation_of_the_short_longlife_practice_of_Drenpa_Namkha_YabyumDownload Read more

Wishing everyone a blessed Zhang Zhung Losar! May the Female Wood Snake bring beauty, flexibility, peace, prosperity and contentment! ཞང་ཞུང་ལོ་གསར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤོག། ཤིང་སྦྲུལ་མ་ཡིས་མཛེས་དང་མཉེན་པ་དང་། ། ཞི་བདེ་དཔལ་འབྱོར་བདེ་སྐྱིད་ལྡན་པར་མཛོད། ། FPYB Team Read more

We are delighted to start the New Year 2025 with the publication of a new volume of Yongdzin Rinpoche’s Dzogchen teachings. Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche gave these teachings on Nyamzhag Gompai Laglen: The Practice of Equanimous Contemplation from the Oral Transmission of Zhang Zhung, in the Shambhala Centre, Paris, in April 1997. The text is contained in the first section of Zhang Zhung Nyengyu, The General Presentation of the Outer Views, and deals with all aspects of Dzogchen practice starting from general Preliminaries, through tregchö and thögal, and ending with instructions on practice at the time of death and Read more