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“There are two kinds of Nature: –          Relative nature; –          Absolute Nature. Relative Nature This means that nothing is created, it is just as it is. For instance, the nature of water is that it is wet, the nature of fire is that it is hot. This is relative nature. Absolute Nature Every being, from dharmakaya down to hell, is integrated with Nature. Nature encompasses all beings equally without any changes. But we don’t trust our own Nature, our own property. We don’t realize it, we don’t recognize it, we don’t try to know it. We are always just [looking] Read more

COVID-19 has recently spread rapidly from China all over the world and was today declared a pandemic by WHO. Seventeen years ago, in similar circumstances during the worldwide SARS epidemic, Yongdzin Rinpoche gave detailed instructions on this text. Since many Bönpo practitioners received transmission  for this practice and are reciting the mantra, we thought it would be of benefit to release these teachings now. We discussed this with Yongdzin Rinpoche and he agreed, adding that this is only for people with transmission who are seriously reciting  this mantra of Yeshe Walmo. This booklet contains Rinpoche’s clear instructions on how to Read more

Today we are celebrating the anniversary of Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen, a great reformer of monastic Bön and founder of Menri Monastery which later became one of the most important Bönpo study and practice centres in Tibet. རྗེ་མཉམ་མེད་ཆེན་པོའི་གསོལ་འདེབ། Prayer to Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen བདེ་ཆེན་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཀུན་བཟང་རྒྱལ་བ་འདུས། DEC-HEN GYAL-PO KUN-ZANG GYAL-WA DÜ King of Great Bliss, who embodies the Knowledge of all the Buddhas, མི་བརྗེད་བཟུངས་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་སྨྲ་བའི་སེང་། MI-JE ZUNG-DEN SHE-RAB MA-WAI SENG Lion of Speech, Mawai Senge with infallible memory, འཛམ་གླིང་བོན་གྱི་གཙུག་རྒྱན་མཉམ་མེད་པ། DZAM-LING BÖN GYI TSUG-GYEN NYAM-ME-PA Ornament of Bön unequalled in the world, ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ཞབས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། SHE-RAB GYAL-TSEN ZHAB LA SOL-WA-DEB O Great Sherab Gyaltsen, to you I Read more

Good news for the end of the year! While we were in Triten Norbutse Bönpo Monastery, Kathmandu, earlier this month Yongdzin Rinpoche asked us to organise the delivery of a new two-volume edition of Bönpo thangkas to The British Library in London. The volumes contain 201 thangkas in high resolution as well as an explanation of iconography on each thangka in Tibetan. We are pleased to announce that the books are now safely in the Tibetan Collections, Asian and African Studies, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London where they can now be consulted by anyone interested. Many thanks to Read more

Mount Kailash, or Gang Tise, as the Tibetans call it, is one of the world’s holiest mountains. It is revered by Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Bönpo alike. This conference will bring together experts from all around the globe to discuss why Mt. Kailash and its environs play a central role in these ancient belief systems. Dmitry Ermakov of Foundation for the Preservation of Yungdrung Bon has been invited to represent the Bonpos. He will present two topics: ABSTRACT: The Importance of Mt. Kailash in the Bön Religion by Dmitry Ermakov, Foundation for the Preservation of Yungdrung Bön, UK. March 21, Read more