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Tag: Bonpo Dzogchen

Dzogchen & Advaita Vedanta

8th October 2023

Over the years I have had many discussions on the topic of Dzogchen[1] and Vedanta, particularly Advaita Vedanta, with friends and practitioners of Yungdrung Bön[2] and various schools of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Recently, this topic came up again in conversation when a friend  brought to my attention a section of Loel Guiness’ book Rainbow Body that contains an exposition of the Dzogchen view. We had a lively discussion about what was written there after my recent talk at Watkins Books in London and it is this discussion that has prompted me to write this article since, from the perspective of Dzogchen…
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Mucho Demdrug Turning the Wheel of Bön

29th September 2023

Today is the anniversary of when Mucho Demdrug (Tib. Mu-cho ldem-drug), one of the seven sons of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche, turned the Wheel of Bön.

New Book on Magyu Tummo, Tsalung, Gagsel and the Thigle Practice of Four Joys

15th June 2023

We are delighted to share with you the good news that a new full colour book on the Path of Method from the Mother Tantra of Yungdrung Bӧn is now available! Tummo: Practice of Self-Blazing Blissful Wisdom from the Compassionate Sun of the Mother Tantra by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin Translated from Tibetan by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin, Dmitry Ermakov and Carol Ermakova, with full Tibetan text on each facing page. Illustrations by Yungdrung Rabten. གཏུམ་མོའི་ཉམས་ལེན་བདེ་དྲོད་ཡེ་ཤེས་རང་འབར། མཁན་པོ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་བསྟན་འཛིན། Tummo: Practice of Self-Blazing Blissful Wisdom is a bilingual Tibetan-English hardback edition with 45 full-colour illustrations that includes six texts Drubdra Khenpo composed…
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Anniversary of Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen’s Rainbow Body

2nd June 2023

RIG-GYAI CHYI-PAL KÜN-CHYEN SHAR-DZA-PAརིགས་རྒྱའི་སྤྱི་དཔལ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཤར་རྫ་པ།O, Splendour of the Universe, Omniscient Shardzapa PHO-CHEN-JA-LÜ WÖ DU DENG NA YANGའཕོ་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 NAMབདག་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 DZÖཐུགས་རྗེས་འདོར་མེད་དགོངས་རྒྱུད་འཕོ་པར་མཛོད།Through your compassion, please enable us to enter the unwavering Buddha-Mind! Translated by Dmitry Ermakov, 2023 Today is the anniversary of the great Bönpo master Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen (Shar-rdza Bkra-shis rgyal-mtshan), who attained Rainbow Body on the 13th day of the 4th month of the Wood Dog Year, 1934. Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934) was a great Bönpo…
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Why do we take rebirth as an ordinary sentient being?

17th May 2023

I have already taught something about this Basic Nature. When a thought appears from there and you look towards that thought, the thought disappears and there is a clear presence. Soon afterwards, a thought arises. If you follow the thought and immediately judge it as good or bad or something, then you forget where it is coming from, you forget the source. When you see anything, when an object arises, when for instance something interesting comes, you immediately perceive it as interesting and follow it, and that leads to desire. If on the other hand the objects are not very…
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