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Tönpa Shenrab – whose original name was Mura Tahen (Tib. Dmu-ra ta-han) – was born on the fifteenth day of the first month of Spring (Tib. me-stag-gi zla-ba) in the country of Olmo Lungring (Tib. ‘Ol-mo lung-ring), the central region of the larger country of Tagzig (Tib. Rtag-gzigs/Stag-gzig). It was in the Wood Male Mouse Year i.e. in 16,017 BC according to traditional Bönpo Chronology (Tib. Bstan-rtsis). So this year marks the 18040th anniversary of the First Deed of Yungdrung Bön’s Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche (Tib. Ston pa Gshen rab Mi bo che) – the Deed of Birth (Tib. Sku Read more

Dear Friends! We have just discovered that our Order Form is not working. If you have recently tried to contact us about ordering the divination manual Mirror of Clairvoyance or wish to get any other restricted materials, please email us directly at: fpyb [a] yungdrungbon.co.uk We are working on resolving the problem and will put up a notice when it is fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience! FPYB team Read more

Today FPYB published ༄༅།།སྲིད་རྒྱལ་དུས་དྲུག་གི་མངོན་ཤེས་མེ་ལོང་བཞུགས། / MIRROR OF CLAIRVOYANCE OF THE SIX EMANATIONS OF SIPAI GYALMO, a bilingual Tibetan-English edition of a divination manual. This divination is connected with the Six Emanations of Sipai Gyalmo, the main Guardian of Yungdrung Bön, and can be done using your mala, a die or by writing your question on earth or paper and arriving at the answer through a mathematical calculation. This text was translated in 2008 by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin, Geshe Tenzin Yangtön, Carol Ermakova and Dmitry Ermakov in Kathmandu but was never published. It was revised in 2022 and the original Read more

Winter Holidays are upon us and so we send many greetings and wishes for good fortune, prosperity and progress in practice to all our friends! Whether you are just chilling out or busy celebrating with family and friends, a practitioner can and should integrate with any circumstances. The best way to stay connected with the essence of practice is to do Guru Yoga. So as a holiday gift, we are offering a download of རྗེ་ཏ་པི་ཧྲི་ཙའི་གསོལ་འདེབས། / PRAYER TO THE GREAT MASTER TAPIHRITSA (translated by Yongdzin Rinpoche & Dmitry Ermakov) as well as a video of Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin chanting Read more

Dear friends! Today we are happy to announce the release of a new booklet and accompanying video, The Short Practice of the Threefold Active Contemplation from the Mother Tantra. This is a bilingual publication containing the short guru yoga practice for Magyu which is recited on a daily basis and before practising tsalung and tummo. It includes the original Tibetan text, translation, and transliterations as well as the visualisation for each section as explained by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin, head of the Meditation School at Triten Norbutse Bönpo Monastery, Kathmandu. Photos of relevant mudras are included in black and white. Read more