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Our 8th Anniversary: Reflections on the last 12 months

3rd July 2025

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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FPYB’s contributions to Yongdzin Rinpoche’s Centenary Volume

26th February 2025

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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New Book on Magyu Tummo, Tsalung, Gagsel and the Thigle Practice of Four Joys

15th June 2023

We are delighted to share with you the good news that a new full colour book on the Path of Method from the Mother Tantra of Yungdrung Bӧn is now available! Tummo: Practice of Self-Blazing Blissful Wisdom from the Compassionate Sun of the Mother Tantra by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin Translated from Tibetan by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin, Dmitry Ermakov and Carol Ermakova, with full Tibetan text on each facing page. Illustrations by Yungdrung Rabten. གཏུམ་མོའི་ཉམས་ལེན་བདེ་དྲོད་ཡེ་ཤེས་རང་འབར། མཁན་པོ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་བསྟན་འཛིན། Tummo: Practice of Self-Blazing Blissful Wisdom is a bilingual Tibetan-English hardback edition with 45 full-colour illustrations that includes six texts Drubdra Khenpo composed…
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The Short Practice of the Threefold Active Contemplation from the Mother Tantra released

18th December 2022

Dear friends! Today we are happy to announce the release of a new booklet and accompanying video, The Short Practice of the Threefold Active Contemplation from the Mother Tantra. This is a bilingual publication containing the short guru yoga practice for Magyu which is recited on a daily basis and before practising tsalung and tummo. It includes the original Tibetan text, translation, and transliterations as well as the visualisation for each section as explained by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin, head of the Meditation School at Triten Norbutse Bönpo Monastery, Kathmandu. Photos of relevant mudras are included in black and white.…
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Conference Presentations in Print

8th April 2022

Two recent video presentations by Dmitry Ermakov, Foundation for the Preservation of Yungdrung Bön, UK, at the 5th International Conference on the Phenomenon of the Holy Mt. Kailash, Universitӓt Hamburg, 25-27 March 2022, are now published in written form. The Importance of Mt. Kailash in the Bön Religion can be read here: The Magical Duel between Milarepa and Naro Bönchung: Who Really Won? can be read here:

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