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Today is Losar of the Iron Elephant (or Ox). I send many tashi delegs to all friends and Tibetans, especially those connected with Yungdrung Bön. Whether you are Tibetan or a foreigner, I send special tashi delegs to everyone connected with Yungdrung Bön. Yongdzin Rinpoche’s message on Iron-Elephant Losar/2021 This year, many things are different. According to Yungdrung Bön history, New Year, Losar, was last month. According to the government, Losar is this month. This is a general celebration, all Tibetans do it this way. Nevertheless, many Tibetan people inside Tibet, Upper and Lower Tibet, Central Tibet, and Western Tibet Read more

Dear Friends,             Happy Losar of the Iron Elephant! May she squash all diseases and obstacles and bring you prosperity, sound health, happiness and success in your practice and other endeavours! Very best wishes from us all at FPYB! Read more

On the fifteenth day of the twelfth Tibetan month, we celebrate the 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 bltams-pa’i mdzad-pa). 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 Read more

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