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Who are the Lu? Lu are water spirits or Water Owners, known as Naga in Sanskrit and Zhang Zhung. They don’t only live in water, and in fact there are many different classes of Lu inhabiting various worlds and elements. Since each of the five main elements is made of five sub-elements, each has a sub-element of water in which Lu reside. For example, if we take the fire element there is fire-fire, fire-earth, fire-wind, fire-space and fire-water, and some Lu reside in fire-water. The same is true for all the other elements. The full list of various kinds of Read more

Drubdra Khenpo flies back to Triten Norbutse tomorrow after two intense weeks of teachings, transmissions, meditation and rituals. Our heartfelt thanks for his great generosity! Italy It was Khenpo’s second visit to Tuscany co-hosted by Paola Malatesta and we were happy to welcome many old students as well as several new ones. Khenpo taught from Yongdzin Rinpoche’s commentary on the Prayer to Tapihritsa by Gurub Nangzher Lӧpo which he began last year and led morning and evening meditation sessions. On the last day, he surprised us by giving many lung-transmissions. We are already looking forward to the next Italian retreat, Read more

Siamo lieti di annunciare che altri tre libri sono ora disponibili in italiano! Sin tratta di: Come pratticare lo Dzogchen nella vita quotidiana, ཀླུ་བསང་། SANG per i LU, མ་རྒྱུད་དགོངས་སྤྱོད་རྣམ་གསུམ་བསྡུས་པ་བཞུགས།། La Pratica Breve della Triplice Contemplazione Attiva dal Tantra Madre.Dettagli per l’acquisto qui: https://yungdrungbon.co.uk/publications/#libri-in-italianoNon vediamo l’ora di aggiungere altri titoli alla nostra collana italiana di Carte Amaranto!Grazie a Paola Malatesta per il suo lavoro di traduzione. Read more

Da domani 16 a lunedì 19 la casa editrice Carte Amaranto con cui collaboriamo sarà presente alla XXXVII edizione del salone internazionale del libro di Torino. In questa occasione verranno presentati e sarà possibile acquistare i primi libri che FPYB ha pubblicato in italiano. Speriamo che questo diventi un appuntamento annuale in cui presentare ulteriori pubblicazioni che sono in lavorazione e in progetto. Saranno acquistabili presso al Salone del libro di Torino allo Stand della casa editrice Carte Amaranto . Padiglione 2 stand M154 https://www.salonelibro.it/visita/La-XXXVII-edizione-.html Happy to announce that the first FPYB books in Italian will be showcased at a Read more

We are pleased to share that a new book of teachings by Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche is out today! Shedrub Lopön Lodrö Tsugphü recently led a seminar on this text in Germany, and following requests from both organisers and participants, we are making this detailed manual available. The book is a compilation of teachings on འཆི་རྟགས་གསལ་བའི་སྒྲོན་མ། The Clear Lamp of the Signs of Death by Lishu Tagring but also includes Rinpoche’s original drawings as well as his additional teachings on how to avert bad signs and omens, how to appease malign entities, how to pay off karmic debts and Read more