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Celebrations surrounding Yongdzin Lopon Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche’s Centenary

12th February 2025

This year many sangha members, friends and scholars have gathered in Triten Norbutse Bonpo Monastery, Kathmandu, to celebrate Yongdzin Rinpoche’s 100th birthday. Zhang Zhung Losar The festivities began with a joyful 2-day event marking Zhang Zhung Losar, with many songs, feasting and much laughter as well as offerings of sangchӧ and auspicious prayers. Four days of intensive rituals For four full days, rituals were held in two of the monastery’s largest halls, the New Temple, and the Assembly Hall. The practitioners in the New Temple followed the rab ne consecration ritual while those packed into the Assembly Hall recited the…
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New Year – New Book by Yongdzin Rinpoche: The Practice of Equanimous Contemplation

1st January 2025

We are delighted to start the New Year 2025 with the publication of a new volume of Yongdzin Rinpoche’s Dzogchen teachings. Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche gave these teachings on Nyamzhag Gompai Laglen: The Practice of Equanimous Contemplation from the Oral Transmission of Zhang Zhung, in the Shambhala Centre, Paris, in April 1997. The text is contained in the first section of Zhang Zhung Nyengyu, The General Presentation of the Outer Views, and deals with all aspects of Dzogchen practice starting from general Preliminaries, through tregchö and thögal, and ending with instructions on practice at the time of death and…
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A word on euthanasia from Yongdzin Rinpoche

30th November 2024

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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Essential Dzogchen Teachings from Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin

8th September 2024

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

2nd August 2024

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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