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

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NEW BOOK: Two Dzogchen Texts from KUSUM RANGSHAR, Oral Teachings by Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak

Yongdzin Lopӧn Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche gave these oral teachings on two Dzogchen texts from Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen’s Kusum Rangshar in 1999 in Paris. Now, twenty-five years later, the international Bönpo sangha has grown exponentially but, since Yongdzin Rinpoche has now retired from teaching, many newer practitioners may never have met or received teachings from him. With this in mind, we decided to re-edit and republish this precious book because it will surely benefit practitioners both old and new. These oral teachings by Yongdzin Rinpoche contain concise, detailed and lucid instructions on all the fundamental topics of the Dzogchen Path of…
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Dzogchen & Advaita Vedanta

Over the years I have had many discussions on the topic of Dzogchen[1] and Vedanta, particularly Advaita Vedanta, with friends and practitioners of Yungdrung Bön[2] and various schools of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Recently, this topic came up again in conversation when a friend  brought to my attention a section of Loel Guiness’ book Rainbow Body that contains an exposition of the Dzogchen view. We had a lively discussion about what was written there after my recent talk at Watkins Books in London and it is this discussion that has prompted me to write this article since, from the perspective of Dzogchen…
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Mucho Demdrug Turning the Wheel of Bön

Today is the anniversary of when Mucho Demdrug (Tib. Mu-cho ldem-drug), one of the seven sons of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche, turned the Wheel of Bön.

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

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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Why do we take rebirth as an ordinary sentient being?

I have already taught something about this Basic Nature. When a thought appears from there and you look towards that thought, the thought disappears and there is a clear presence. Soon afterwards, a thought arises. If you follow the thought and immediately judge it as good or bad or something, then you forget where it is coming from, you forget the source. When you see anything, when an object arises, when for instance something interesting comes, you immediately perceive it as interesting and follow it, and that leads to desire. If on the other hand the objects are not very…
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