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

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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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Short Drenpa Namkha Tsog now publicly available

Since Khenpo Tenpa Yungdrung Rinpoche advised practising this tsog as one of the main practices to be done during the 49-day period following Yongdzin Rinpoche’s entering thugdam on 12th June, 2025, we are now releasing this practice in both eBook and printed public formats, making it available to devoted practitioners who have not yet received transmission so that everyone can do it during this period. Nevertheless, it is strongly advised to receive transmission and instructions for this tsog from a qualified Bönpo lama as soon as possible. The Accomplishment Practice of Khöpung༼ །ཁོད་སྤུངས་སྒོས་སྒྲུབ་བཞུགས། ༽ (p. 7–10) includes the heart mantra…
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Prayers to recite on the occasion of Yongdzin Rinpoche entering thugdam

Dear friends, Many of you have asked us  what practice we can do during this period following the passing of Yongdzin Rinpoche. Triten Norbutse Monastery may issue some guidance in the following days but, generally, one can do Guru Yoga with the following invocation: ཨེ་མ་ཧོ། EMAHO Marvellous! བསླབ་གསུམ་བསྟན་པའི་བདག་ཉིད་འགྲོ་བའི་མགོན། LAB SUM TEN PAI DAG NYI DRO WAI GÖN Oh, Lord of the Doctrine of the Three Trainings and the Protector of beings, ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཉི་དབང་རྣམ་རོལ་དགོངས་རྩལ་རྫོགས། KÜN CHYEN NYI WANG NAM ROL GONG TSAL DZOG the emanation of the omniscient Nyima Tenzin Wanggi Gyalpo with perfect Power and Knowledge! མདོ་སྡེ་སྔགས་ཀྱི་གནས་ལུགས་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེ། DÖ DE NGAG CHYI…
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Gone to Great Bliss

It is with the greatest sorrow yet profound gratitude that we share the news of Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche entering thugdam.

The Clear Lamp of the Signs of Death: Oral Teachings by Yongdzin Rinpoche

We are pleased to share that a new book of teachings by Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche is out today! Shedrub Lopön Lodrö Tsugphü recently led a seminar on this text in Germany, and following requests from both organisers and participants, we are making this detailed manual available. The book is a compilation of teachings on འཆི་རྟགས་གསལ་བའི་སྒྲོན་མ། The Clear Lamp of the Signs of Death by Lishu Tagring but also includes Rinpoche’s original drawings as well as his additional teachings on how to avert bad signs and omens, how to appease malign entities, how to pay off karmic debts and…
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