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Great news! Biography of Yongdzin Rinpoche titled “THE LIFE OF A GREAT BONPO MASTER: The Biography of Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche” is now out in English. From his early childhood in East Tibet, the boy who would later come to be known as Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche wanted nothing more than to devote his life to meditation and spiritual discovery, and to learn the ancient wisdom of Bon from Tibet’s greatest masters. His life changed when, as a young apprentice, he accompanied a team of mural painters to Central Tibet for a commission at a famous Bonpo monastery. When the Read more

Many greetings to all on this auspicious day of Zhang Zhung Losar according to original ancient Bönpo astrological calendar! May all troubles of the past year disappear and may you all enjoy great health, good luck, prosperity, be joyful and happy! ཞང་ཞུང་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ལ་བཀྲ་བཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་གྲངས་མེད་ཤུ། སྐུ་ཚེ་རིང་དཔལ་ནོར་ཤོག ཁ་ལས་དབང་ཐག་རྒྱས། ཚེ་བསོད་རླུང་རྟ་དར། FPYB Team Read more

To all our friends we wish a very happy, healthy, prosperous and magical New Year 2021! FPYB Team Read more

Generally, Dzogchen nowadays seems to be brought down to an easy way, but in our tradition, long before, this was the hardest to understand and study. So in our school, for example, in the monastery, it is the last subject we teach; when everybody is set up and has enough knowledge – then they are ready to be taught Dzogchen. But nowadays it looks as if it’s brought down to a very easy way. Everybody thinks and says – I myself have heard this, too – ‘look to the mind and how it is thinking. If you look there, you Read more

Today (9th month, 30th day) we are celebrating Nyangenledepa (mya ngan las ‘das pa) / Parinirvana of Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche, Buddha of Yungdrung Bön. So it is fitting to read some of his words to his followers, as translated by Yongdzin Rinpoche: “At that time, the Buddha himself was seated on the throne, and his colour was golden. He was sitting cross-legged and his right hand was resting on his knee while his left hand was in the mudrа of equipoise. He was dressed in the six garments of a monk and he was smiling. So many luminous lights radiated Read more