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Today is the Anniversary of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche (Tib. Rgyal-ba Ston-pa Gshen-rab Mi-bo-che) completing the Twelfth Deed, The Deed of Realisation (Tib. rnam-par grub-pa’i mdzad-pa), when he achieved nyangen ledepa (Tib. mya-ngan las’das-pa) or parinirvana in 7817 BC, 9,838 years ago. The very essence of all the Yungdrung Bön teachings he taught is encapsulated in the four lines known as The Four Wheels of Bön / ༎བོན་འཁོར་ཚིག་བཞི།། (Tib. Bon ‘khor thsig bzhi). The Four Wheels are:TA-WA YE PHAB།།ལྟ་བ་ཡས་ཕབ།Take the highest View.CHYO-PA ME YAR-DZEG།སྤྱོད་པ་མས་ཡར་འཛེག།Step up with your activities, starting from the smallest virtues.NYING-JE ZHI-ZUNG།སྙིང་རྗེས་གཞི་བཟུང་།Whatever practice you do, take compassion as Read more

How to Practise Dzogchen in Daily Life by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Proceeds from printed book sales shall be donated to the Triten Norbutse Bönpo Monastery building project via l’Association Triten Norbutse. “The Sutra teachings also say many things about the mind, but if you search for the essence of things according to the Sutra teachings as I have just described, then you will never find the Natural State of the Dzogchen Nature. In Dzogchen, you just need to look at the mind. Then, as I told you earlier, at that Read more

Today (15th day of the 8th lunar month) is the anniversary of when one of Tönpa Shenrab’s sons, Regent Dungsob Mucho Demdrug (Tib. Gdung-sob Mu-cho ldem-drug), turned the Wheel of Bön. This marked the beginning of the Doctrine of Speech (Tib. gsung gi bstan pa), the second 10,000-year period of this current 30,000-year long cycle of Yungdrung Bön. So we have chosen this auspicious day to release a new book: How to Practise Dzogchen in Daily Life, available as both a printed book and eBook. This short book contains teachings given by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin as part of a Read more

Today is the anniversary of Drenpa Namkha and his twin sons Tsewang Rigdzin and Pema Thongdrol, known together as Yabsesum (Tib. yab-sras-gsum, For more info please read article here: https://yungdrungbon.co.uk/2021/03/06/three-drenpa-namkhas-in-yungdrung-bon/). We are celebrating this day with the release of a new book: Correcting Erroneous Views of Dzogchen dedicated to the long life of Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche. This volume is a compilation of teachings Yongdzin Rinpoche gave between 2005-2009 and contains advice on how to correct common errors and mistakes that often arise when we try to understand and practise the Dzogchen View.             The first part is a Read more

Soon after Magyu Tsalung & Tummo was published in November 2018, we began receiving requests to create an eBook version because it is difficult and expensive to get the printed book delivered to some regions of the planet. So we are delighted to announce that this popular practice manual is now available in EPUB3 Fixed Layout format. Besides the plentiful colour illustrations of chakras and channels found in the printed book, this eBook Edition also contains eight embedded videos in which Drubdra Khenpo demonstrates the thrulkhor movements performed together with breathing and visualisation. So, together with the author, Drubdra Khenpo Read more