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

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!!NEWS FLASH!! New eBook

After many tedious hours of struggling with tech trouble, Dmitry has finally done it!! We have a new eBook!!The Four Wheels of Bön, as taught by Yongdzin Rinpoche, is now available on Google Play Books.May the light of Yongdzin Rinpoche’s infinite wisdom and boundless compassion illumine the hearts and minds of all beings everywhere!

Our 8th Anniversary: Reflections on the last 12 months

This has been a momentous year for all Bönpos worldwide but also for FPYB (we organised our first ever teaching and meditation retreat!), and for our Founding Members, Carol and Dmitry, personally – it’s exactly 30 years since we first met Yongdzin Rinpoche and began working with him. Celebrating a Hundred Years of Wisdom This year saw thousands gathering at Triten Norbutse Monastery to celebrate the great life and work of Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche and join in the inauguration of the new temple. Scenes from the celebrations at Triten Norbutse monastery. Photo credit: Carol Ermakova The celebrations included…
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Yongdzin Rinpoche has concluded his Thugdam

After remaining for eight days in the profound meditative state of thugdam, this night Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche passed into Great Bliss. His earthly body, known in Tibetan as kudung (sku gdung / སྐུ་གདུང་།), will be received in Triten Norbutse Monastery, Kathmandu, tomorrow (21st June, 2025). Video – Prayers at Jarsing Pauwa with Chyabje Menri Tridzin Rinpoche, Ponlob Menri Rinpoche and Drubdra Khenpo Rinpoche. May Yongdzin Rinpoche’s enlightened wishes be perfectly accomplished! Video – Menri Tridzin offering a mandala while the monks recite Lama Chöpa, offering prayer to the Master. Chyabje 34th Menri Tridzin Rinpoche and Chyabje Pönlob Trinley…
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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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