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Birthday Anniversaries of Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche & His Son, Prince Kongtsa Yungdrung Wangden

1st February 2026

According to traditional Bönpo Chronology (Tib. Bstan-rtsis) Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche (Tib. Ston pa Gshen rab Mi bo che) – whose original name was Mura Tahen (Tib. Dmu-ra ta-han) – was born in the country of Wolmo Lungring (Tib. ‘Ol-mo lung-ring), the central region of the larger country of Tagzig (Tib. Rtag-gzigs/Stag-gzig), in the Wood Male Mouse Year (i.e. in 16,017 BC), on the fifteenth day of the first month of Spring, the Fire Tiger month (Tib. me-stag-gi zla-ba). So this year 1st February 2026 marks the 18,043rd anniversary of the First Deed of Yungdrung Bön’s Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche –…
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Parinirvana Anniversary of Mugyal Shense Norbu Wanggyal Rinpoche

21st January 2026

Today is the Anniversary of Parinirvana of Mugyal Shense Norbu Wanggyal Rinpoche, a direct descendant of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwo. He passed away on 7 February 2022 and this uninterrupted Shen lineage is continuing with his two sons. E-MA-HO! KUN-ZANG THUG-TRUL DREN-PA NAM-KHAI KU ཨེ་མ་ཧོ། ཀུན་བཟང་ཐུགས་སྤྲུལ་དྲན་པ་ནམ་མཁའི་སྐུ། ། How wonderful! You have the Body of Drenpa Namkha, Kuntu Zangpo’s Mind-emanation, NYIG-DÜ DRO-WAI-GÖN DU JE-TSE’I GAR སྙིགས་དུས་འགྲོ་བའི་མགོན་དུ་རྗེས་བརྩེའི་གར། ། and you protect the beings with compassion and loving-kindness in these degenerate times! MU-RIG DZAM-LING TEN-PAI NYI-MA LA དམུ་གཤེན་འཛམ་གླིང་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ་ལ། ། To you, the Sun of the Teachings of Mushen, illuminating the world, SOL-WA-DEB-SO DAG-GYU…
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9,842 Anniversary of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche’s Parinirvana

19th November 2025

Today, on the 30th day of the 9th month according to the Horda (Tib. hor-zla) calendar, we are celebrating the Anniversary of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche (Tib. Rgyal-ba Ston-pa Gshen-rab Mi-bo-che) completing the Twelfth Deed, The Deed of Realisation (Tib. rnam-par grub-pa’i mdzad-pa), when he achieved nyangen ledepa (Tib. mya-ngan las’das-pa) or parinirvana in 7817 BC, 9,842 years ago. Through his life and teachings, the Buddha of Yungdrung Bön Tönpa Shenrab showed us the way from suffering to contentment, from strife to peace, and from anguish to ultimate Buddhahood. E Ma HO! PRAYER TO TÖNPA SHENRAB MIWOCHE ཨེ་མ་ཧོ། E-MA-HO! Wonderful!…
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Our 8th Anniversary: Reflections on the last 12 months

3rd July 2025

This has been a momentous year for all Bönpos worldwide but also for FPYB (we organised our first ever teaching and meditation retreat!), and for our Founding Members, Carol and Dmitry, personally – it’s exactly 30 years since we first met Yongdzin Rinpoche and began working with him. Celebrating a Hundred Years of Wisdom This year saw thousands gathering at Triten Norbutse Monastery to celebrate the great life and work of Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche and join in the inauguration of the new temple. Scenes from the celebrations at Triten Norbutse monastery. Photo credit: Carol Ermakova The celebrations included…
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91st Anniversary of Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen’s Rainbow Body

9th June 2025

RIG-GYAI CHYI-PAL KÜN-CHYEN SHAR-DZA-PA རིགས་རྒྱའི་སྤྱི་དཔལ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཤར་རྫ་པ། O, Splendour of the Universe, Omniscient Shardzapa PHO-CHEN-JA-LÜ WÖ DU DENG NA YANG འཕོ་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 NAM བདག་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 DZÖ ཐུགས་རྗེས་འདོར་མེད་དགོངས་རྒྱུད་འཕོ་པར་མཛོད། Through your compassion, please enable us to enter the unwavering Buddha-Mind! Translated by Dmitry Ermakov. Today is the 91st anniversary of the great Bönpo master Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen’s (Shar-rdza Bkra-shis rgyal-mtshan) realisation of Rainbow Body, which he achieved on the 13th day of the 4th month of the Wood…
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