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Tag: Bonpo Dzogchen

Kyabje Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche’s Birthday Anniversary

Today, on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, we celebrate an official birthday of Kyabje Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, the Head Teacher of Yungdrung Bön. Rinpoche is 97 according to the Western system and 98 according to Tibetan system, in which age calculated from conception. You can read Rinpoche’s concise biography here: https://yungdrungbon.co.uk/yongdzin-lopon-tenzin-namdak-rinpoche/ You can also pray for Rinpoche’s long-life and good health so that he continues teach and guide us all on the path to Buddhahood. Here is the prayer composed by the 33rd Menri Tridzin Rinpoche and translated by Khenpo Gelek Jinpa and Dmitry Ermakov:…
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Essential Instructions on Dzogchen from Yongdzin Rinpoche

Dear Friends, We have just returned from a short trip to Kathmandu and are delighted to share the good news that Yongdzin Rinpoche is very well indeed! He urges everyone to practise, and once again stressed the importance of reciting the Tsewang Mönlam every day. Tsewang Mönlam free download Tsewang Mönlam printed booklet Our heartfelt thanks to Largen Lama, Geshe Tenzin Lodrö and Geshe Kalzang Losar for taking such a good care of Rinpoche for us all! “In Dzogchen, you don’t use thoughts […] Because thoughts make more trouble, thoughts bring more problems, and that is ignorance. Why? Because if…
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Anniversary of Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen

Today on the 13th lunar day of the 4th month of the Tibetan calendar, Bönpos celebrate the anniversary of the great practitioner and scholar Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen, who attained Rainbow Body in the 20th century. Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934) was a great Bönpo master and erudite scholar from Dagang, Kham, Eastern Tibet. He became a monk at a young age and throughout his life he received countless teachings, instructions and initiations into numerous lineages and traditions of Bönpo Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen from many illustrious masters of the day. At the age of thirty-four he went into solitude at Yungdrung…
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Extensive Practice of Drenpa Namkha

Today, Friday 25th March 2022, the extensive practice of Drenpa Namkha began in Triten Norbutse Bönpo Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal. It will continue for a week, the Friday 1st March. During this week, the monks of the Drubdra meditation school will be reciting the liturgy and accumulating mantras according to the text The Secret Practice of Khöpung Drenpa’s Innermost Essence / ཁོད་སྤུངས་དྲན་པའི་སྙིང་ཐིག་གསང་སྒྲུབ་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་པ་ལེགས་སོ།།. Those of us who have received in-person teachings and / or transmission for this cycle can practise this ourselves, at home. If you don’t have this Tibetan-English bilingual text compiled by Yongdzin Rinpoche, you can contact FPYB here and…
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When to Practise Guru Yoga

You can practise Guru Yoga any time. Before you eat something, before going to sleep or when you are doing anything, any work, as you begin, you can remember Tapihritsa and offer him whatever you are going to eat or drink or do. Very often, think of Tapihritsa as a friend of yours; day or night, any time, you are together. If you have devotion and trust in him, then he is also a very great, powerful guardian. You can think you receive everything from him.                If you want to help somebody else, instead of receiving the elements [representing…
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