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

Tag: Bonpo Dzogchen

A word on euthanasia from Yongdzin Rinpoche

Yesterday MPs in the UK Parliament voted in favour of the so-called “assisted dying bill” aka euthanasia. Yongdzin Rinpoche was asked about this during a retreat in Paris in April 1997 when he was teaching on Nyamzhag Gompai Laglen (Tib. Mnyam bzhag sgom pa’i lag len). Here is his response: Q: (a question about euthanasia)A: If someone is dying, terminally ill, it is better not to kill him or her or let them commit suicide because they haven’t worked through their karma yet. You should never kill. A painkiller is not an antidote to karmic cause, it can only alleviate some pain…
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Nuova collana di libri in italiano / New book series in Italian

Siamo lieti di annunciare che la FPYB ha ora una nuova pagina web per i libri Bönpo in italiano @ https://yungdrungbon.co.uk/publications/#libri-in-italiano! Tre titoli sono già disponibili e molti altri sono in arrivo. Per ordinare la vostra copia, basta cliccare sul link che vi porterà all’e-mail della Libreria Nuova Avventura che li ha in vendita, oppure a Paola Malatesta che cura i testi di pratica. Si ringraziano Lidia Castellano e Paola per le traduzioni, Massimo Rabassini per la correzione delle bozze, Lorenzo Spadoni e Dmitry Ermakov per l’impaginazione e il design. We are delighted to announce that FPYB now has a…
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Drubdra Khenpo in Italy: Dzogchen, Tummo and more

We were delighted to host Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin in Italy for an intense two weeks of teachings, practice, university lectures, book presentations and shared experiences. After a couple of days exploring the sea and mountains in Tuscany, Drubdra Khenpo headed down to Rome at the invitation of Professor Donatella Rossi for a lecture at La Sapienza, Europe’s largest university. Khenpo-lags gave a detailed exposition on the Nine Ways of Bön which was well attended both at the university and online. We also enjoyed a whistlestop tour of some of Rome’s historic sites, including St. Peters and the Colosseum. Back…
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Essential Dzogchen Teachings from Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin

རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཞང་ཞུང་སྙན་རྒྱུད་ལས་ཕྱི་ལྟ་བ་སྤྱི་གཅོད་ཀྱི་མན་ངག་ལེའུ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ་ལས།། རྣམ་རྟོག་ཐོལ་གྱིས་སྐྱེས་པ་དེ། །གཅེར་གྱིས་ལྟས་པས་ཁྲོལ་གྱིས་གྲོལ། །གཏད་མེད་ཡེ་ཤེས་ས་ལེ་བ། །ཐོད་རྒལ་ཡེཤེས་བྱ་བ་ཡིན། “Suddenly a thought appears. Look back, and watcher, watched and watching liberate by themselves into their own nature. In this instant, your Dzogchen awareness appears clearly to you. That is Direct Wisdom.” This quotation is just four sentences, but they are very, very important. We believe these words first appeared from Kuntu Zangpo. From: Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin. How to Practise Dzogchen in Daily Life: Teachings by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin in Triten Norbutse Monastery, Kathmandu, on the occasion of Yongdzin Rinpoche’s 95th birthday, February 2020 (UK: FPYB, 2021), p. 6. Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin,…
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Diffondere la saggezza suprema – Ritiro Dzogchen in Italia

Sono ancora disponibili pochi posti per questo speriale Ritiro Dzogchen in presenza in Tuscana, 4-7 Ottobre!  Il Testo:  Diffondere la Saggezza Suprema: Spiegazione Concisa e Commentario sulla Preghiera di Supplica al Signore Tapihritsa, Emanazione della Mente di Kuntu Zangpo.  Questo è un testo  breve e molto importante che Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche ha scritto in Tibetano alcuni anni fa. Esso include una spiegazione chiara della Visione  Dzogchen, e del frutto del praticare questo sentiero di Grande Perfezione.  Diffondere la Saggezza Suprema si basa sulla preghiera di ispirazione che Gyerpung Nangzher Lödpo canto spontaneamente quando incontrò per la prima volta…
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