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

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New page: Prayers & Practices

Over the past few years we have translated many prayers and practices into English, and today we have finally collected them into one place on our website, the new Prayers & Practices page. Most are offered gratis as a PDF download and all are available publicly. This new page includes several of the prayers that practitioners are encouraged to recite during this special 49-day period. Where possible, we have also provided links to videos of Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim chanting the longer recitations. As previously, information about restricted practice materials can be found on our Publications page. We will keep the…
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91st Anniversary of Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen’s Rainbow Body

RIG-GYAI CHYI-PAL KÜN-CHYEN SHAR-DZA-PA རིགས་རྒྱའི་སྤྱི་དཔལ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཤར་རྫ་པ། O, Splendour of the Universe, Omniscient Shardzapa PHO-CHEN-JA-LÜ WÖ DU DENG NA YANG འཕོ་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 NAM བདག་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 DZÖ ཐུགས་རྗེས་འདོར་མེད་དགོངས་རྒྱུད་འཕོ་པར་མཛོད། Through your compassion, please enable us to enter the unwavering Buddha-Mind! Translated by Dmitry Ermakov. Today is the 91st anniversary of the great Bönpo master Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen’s (Shar-rdza Bkra-shis rgyal-mtshan) realisation of Rainbow Body, which he achieved on the 13th day of the 4th month of the Wood…
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Athri Dzogchen Retreat with Drubdra Khenpo in Calabria / Ritiro Athri Dzogchen con Drubdra Khenpo in Calabria

Italiano sotto What – This 4-day residential retreat is a rare opportunity to deepen our practice as we become more familiar and stable with the true Nature of our own Mind. For beginners, the techniques taught here will help you recognise the Natural State and gain confidence in your practice. For advanced practitioners, these teachings will provide a rare opportunity to check and correct our Dzogchen meditation in the presence of a great master. Teaching from the Athri Dzogchen cycle, Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin will give clear instructions on how to search for the mind, how to recognise the Natural…
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Lusang: do’s and don’ts

Who are the Lu? Lu are water spirits or Water Owners, known as Naga in Sanskrit and Zhang Zhung. They don’t only live in water, and in fact there are many different classes of Lu inhabiting various worlds and elements. Since each of the five main elements is made of five sub-elements, each has a sub-element of water in which Lu reside. For example, if we take the fire element there is fire-fire, fire-earth, fire-wind, fire-space and fire-water, and some Lu reside in fire-water. The same is true for all the other elements. The full list of various kinds of…
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Tuscany & London: Dzogchen retreats with Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin

Drubdra Khenpo flies back to Triten Norbutse tomorrow after two intense weeks of teachings, transmissions, meditation and rituals. Our heartfelt thanks for his great generosity! Italy It was Khenpo’s second visit to Tuscany co-hosted by Paola Malatesta and we were happy to welcome many old students as well as several new ones. Khenpo taught from Yongdzin Rinpoche’s commentary on the Prayer to Tapihritsa by Gurub Nangzher Lӧpo which he began last year and led morning and evening meditation sessions. On the last day, he surprised us by giving many lung-transmissions. We are already looking forward to the next Italian retreat,…
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