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

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SAVE THE DATE! Retreat with Drubdra Khenpo in Calabria

Teaching and Meditation Retreat with Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin, 25-28 September 2025 Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin will be returning to Italy for a short residential retreat in September 2025. The retreat will include daily meditation sessions led by Drubdra Khenpo himself, who is the Head of the Meditation School at Triten Norbutse Bönpo Monastery in Nepal. There will also be opportunity to request lung-transmissions from this accomplished Dzogchen master. This retreat will be very special as it is the first time that Bön teachings come to Calabria! The retreat will be in English with Italian translation. Topic to be confirmed…
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Drenpa Namkha Intensive Practice

Today, 22nd March 2025, the monks of Drubdra School at Triten Norbutse Bönpo Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal, begin a seven days and one night intensive practice of THE SECRET PRACTICE OF KHÖPUNG DRENPA’S INNERMOST ESSENCE / ཁོད་སྤུངས་དྲན་པའི་སྙིང་ཐིག་གསང་སྒྲུབ་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་པ་ལེགས་སོ།། led by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin. This is a good opportunity for us lay practitioners to connect with the great sage Drenpa Namkha, too. c Photos: Carol Ermakova & Dmitry Ermakov. Drenpa Namkha at Jarsing Pauwa. Video by D. Ermakov. Those who received face to face transmission and explanations for this practice can join from their home. If you don’t have the text, please…
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FPYB’s contributions to Yongdzin Rinpoche’s Centenary Volume

At the invitation of Khenchen Tenpa Yungdrung, Khenpo Gelek Jinpa and Prof. Charles Ramble, Carol and Dmitry were honoured to contribute chapters to Yongdzin Rinpoche’s Centenary Volume, Celebrating 100 Years of Wisdom. The book includes an Introduction, a short biography of Yongdzin Rinpoche’s remarkable life, as well as contributions by scholars and Yongdzin Rinpoche’s disciples. We have just received the official PDFs of our chapters from Charles Ramble plus our author’s copies from Bidur and Lokesh Dongol of Vajra Publications. Thanks to all those involved in producing this memorable book! We are happy to share our chapters here: Carol Ermakova:…
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Новая книга: Основы воззрения, медитации и поведения в сутре, тантре и дзогчене традиции Юндрунг Бӧн

Радостная новость! В свет вышла новая книга “Основы воззрения, медитации и поведения в сутре, тантре и дзогчене традиции Юндрунг Бӧн”. В сборник включены учения двух выдающихся мастеров традиции юнгдрунг бӧн XX-XXI веков – Чьябдже Йонгдзина Лопӧна Тэндзина Намдака Ринпоче и Чьябдже Мэнри Тридзина Лунгтога Тэнпи Ньимы Ринпоче: «Четыре Колеса Бӧна», «Джямма», «Подход к дзогчену в соответствии с системой Атри». В России бӧн пока не так широко известен, но уже существует несколько учебных центров, где квалифицированные бӧнпо ламы, получившие полное образование и наставления от этих великих мастеров в монастырях Мэнри (Индия) и Тритэн Норбутсе (Непал), дают учения по разным аспектам юнгдрунг…
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London Dzogchen Teachings 2025 with Drubdra Khenpo

We are delighted and honoured that Khenpo will be returning to give Dzogchen teachings in London this May. In this retreat, Drubdra Khenpo will give teaching on the first division of Zhang Zhung Nyengyu, The General Presentation of the Outer Views, Chyi Tawa Chyichӧ (Spyi lta ba spyi gcod / སྤྱི་ལྟ་བ་སྤྱི་གཅོད།) which is focused on the aspect of the View. The text which Khenpo will be teaching is the sixth text in this section and is called Applying the Practice of the Meditative Equipoise, Nyamzhag Gonpai Laglen (rDzogs pa chen po zhang zhung snyan rgyud las lta ba spyi gcod…
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