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It’s six years since this Foundation, set up with the blessing of Yongdzin Rinpoche, received its official status as a UK charity, so this weekend we are celebrating another anniversary. ‘Hardly a day goes by without me reading at least one or two pages from your books’ (sangha member) Each year when we come to prepare the Annual Report for the UK Charity Commission, we think we didn’t manage to do much this year, but then I look over the last twelve months and see that in fact we released several books of teachings, as well as prayers, videos, Zoom  Read more

Today we honour Kyabje Lungtog Tenpai Nyima Rinpoche, the late Menri Tridzin, who was born on this day, 1929, in Amdo, East Tibet. ཨེ་མ་ཧོ།། E MA HO! རབ་འབྱམས་ཕྱོགས་བཅུའི་རྒྱལ་བ་སྲས་བཅས་ཀྱི།། You are a supreme scholar among the sons of the Victorious Ones of the Ten Directions, Великий ученый муж череды сынов Победителей десяти сторон вселенной; མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ངོ་བོ་གཅིག་བསྡུས་པ།། The Omniscient One in whom the essence of Primordial Wisdom is gathered, Всеведущий, в котором собрана сущность изначальной мудрости; ཟབ་རྒྱས་གཤེན་བསྟན་སྤེལ་བའི་འཕྲིན་ལས་ཅན།། Through your Buddha-activities, you spread far and wide the profound Teachings of Shenrab, Вашими просветленными усилиями, широко распространились глубокие учения Шенраба; ལུང་རྟོགས་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མར་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས།། I pray to you, Read more

We are delighted to share with you the good news that a new full colour book on the Path of Method from the Mother Tantra of Yungdrung Bӧn is now available! Tummo: Practice of Self-Blazing Blissful Wisdom from the Compassionate Sun of the Mother Tantra by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin Translated from Tibetan by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin, Dmitry Ermakov and Carol Ermakova, with full Tibetan text on each facing page. Illustrations by Yungdrung Rabten. གཏུམ་མོའི་ཉམས་ལེན་བདེ་དྲོད་ཡེ་ཤེས་རང་འབར། མཁན་པོ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་བསྟན་འཛིན། Tummo: Practice of Self-Blazing Blissful Wisdom is a bilingual Tibetan-English hardback edition with 45 full-colour illustrations that includes six texts Drubdra Khenpo composed Read more

RIG-GYAI CHYI-PAL KÜN-CHYEN SHAR-DZA-PAརིགས་རྒྱའི་སྤྱི་དཔལ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཤར་རྫ་པ།O, Splendour of the Universe, Omniscient ShardzapaPHO-CHEN-JA-LÜ WÖ DU DENG NA YANGའཕོ་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 NAMབདག་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 DZÖཐུགས་རྗེས་འདོར་མེད་དགོངས་རྒྱུད་འཕོ་པར་མཛོད།Through your compassion, please enable us to enter the unwavering Buddha-Mind! Translated by Dmitry Ermakov, 2023 Today is the anniversary of the great Bönpo master Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen (Shar-rdza Bkra-shis rgyal-mtshan), who attained Rainbow Body on the 13th day of the 4th month of the Wood Dog Year, 1934. Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934) was a great Bönpo master and erudite Read more

I have already taught something about this Basic Nature. When a thought appears from there and you look towards that thought, the thought disappears and there is a clear presence. Soon afterwards, a thought arises. If you follow the thought and immediately judge it as good or bad or something, then you forget where it is coming from, you forget the source. When you see anything, when an object arises, when for instance something interesting comes, you immediately perceive it as interesting and follow it, and that leads to desire. If on the other hand the objects are not very Read more