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Lusang: do’s and don’ts

30th May 2025

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

26th May 2025

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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London Dzogchen Teachings 2025 with Drubdra Khenpo

15th February 2025

We are delighted and honoured that Khenpo will be returning to give Dzogchen teachings in London this May. In this retreat, Drubdra Khenpo will give teaching on the first division of Zhang Zhung Nyengyu, The General Presentation of the Outer Views, Chyi Tawa Chyichӧ (Spyi lta ba spyi gcod / སྤྱི་ལྟ་བ་སྤྱི་གཅོད།) which is focused on the aspect of the View. The text which Khenpo will be teaching is the sixth text in this section and is called Applying the Practice of the Meditative Equipoise, Nyamzhag Gonpai Laglen (rDzogs pa chen po zhang zhung snyan rgyud las lta ba spyi gcod…
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New Books of Bönpo Thangkas Delivered to British Library

23rd February 2020

Good news for the end of the year! While we were in Triten Norbutse Bönpo Monastery, Kathmandu, earlier this month Yongdzin Rinpoche asked us to organise the delivery of a new two-volume edition of Bönpo thangkas to The British Library in London. The volumes contain 201 thangkas in high resolution as well as an explanation of iconography on each thangka in Tibetan. We are pleased to announce that the books are now safely in the Tibetan Collections, Asian and African Studies, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London where they can now be consulted by anyone interested. Many thanks to…
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