Foundation for the Preservation of Yungdrung Bön / གཡུང་དྲུང་བོན་ཉར་ཚགས་རིག་མཛོད།

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Thirty years ago – raising funds for Chasey Kengtse School

14th September 2026

It is exactly 30 years since Dmitry and Carol completed our first major fund-raising effort to preserve the teachings and traditions of Yungdrung Bön – an Interfaith Peace Walk from London via Kagyu Samye Ling to Holy Island in Scotland! Our journey lasted exactly 49 days, and we were raising money for the Chasey Kengtse School to be built for Bönpo children in Kathmandu. Letters from Khenpo Tenpa Yungdrung about the fund-raiser (redacted) How it all began The Walk was conceived by our friend Marika Brennan (now Osmond), a devout Christian who had been so inspired by a meeting with…
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LAMA YANGTÖN TASHI GYALTSEN

1st July 2024

On 22nd June 2024 we heard the sad news that Lama Yangtön Tashi Gyaltsen of the Yangtön lineage passed away in Kathamandu. We were fortunate to have met him on our first visit to Nepal in 1996 when we shared many meals and lively debates with him in Triten Norbutse Monastery. Here is a short biography: Lama Yangtön Tashi Gyaltsen was the son of Nyima Tseten. As a young boy he received the genyen[1] vows from Lama Nyima. He received initiations of external, internal and secret divinities according to the system of the ancient masters and completed a traditional three-year…
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Triten Norbutse Building Project: New Temple Complex

18th September 2022

While in Kathmandu last month, Carol and Dmitry met with Pönlob Tsangpa Tenzin who kindly gave us a tour of the new temple. The building work is progressing well, despite setbacks due to Covid and the monsoon season. This year, FPYB donated almost one third of book sales’ revenues to the Temple Project, via Association Triten Norbutse. All proceeds from How to Practise Dzogchen in Daily Life (by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin) are donated to the Temple Project. The new complex comprises 5 floors: 1. Some senior monks have just finished a 2-hour meeting to discuss proposals for the main…
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A Big Thank You: Help Dhorpatan Appeal closes this weekend

15th August 2020

Dear Friends! This weekend we are closing the Help Dhorpatan Disaster Relief appeal. On behalf of the villagers there, we would like to thank you all for your tremendous generosity – to date we have raised just over £5,000 pounds. We hope you have enjoyed learning a little more about this remote area of Nepal that was home to the first Tibetan Refugee Settlement and is still home to many ethnic Tibetans, both Bönpo and Buddhist, as well as to Nepali families practising Hinduism. Like most of Nepal, this region can teach us a lot about living side by side…
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Dhorpatan: home to the first Bönpo Medical School in exile. Please help

6th August 2020

Many of us have benefited from the herbal medicines prepared by the clinic attached to Triten Norbutse Monastery but perhaps not so many know the history of this medical school. The first medical school and clinic were actually established back In 1987 in the refugee settlement of Dhorpatan, Nepal at the request of Yongdzin Rinpoche and 33rd Menri Tridzin Rinpoche by Dr. Tsultrim Sanggye. This area has recently been attacked by locusts that have destroyed the villagers’ potato crops and maybe some precious herbs, too. Please help us send them food and other essentials. Tsultrim Sanggye was born in East…
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