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Tag: Offering to Nagas

About the Origins of Lusang

In ancient times there was a man in our Yungdrung Bön tradition called Lubön Yeshe Nyingpo.[1] He is neither sambhogakaya nor nirmanakaya,[2] but a great practitioner. Like you. He was a teacher of the nagas[3] and could teach them Dzogchen.[4] In our tradition, there are three versions of the Dzogchen Teachings: short, medium and extensive. Three special masters appeared after Buddha Tönpa Shenrab:[5] Yongsu Dagpa[6] who was a teacher of gods, Milyu Samleg[7] who was a teacher of humans, and Yeshe Nyingpo who was a teacher of nagas. This person here, depicted on the cover of the practice book, is…
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LUSANG & LUTOR with Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin, Sibari 2025

On 23 September 2025 Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin of Triten Norbutse Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal, led the first Bönpo Lusang and Lutor offering to the water spirits on the Ionian coast in Calabria. These rituals were transmitted by the founder of Yungdrung Bön, Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche to Lubön Yeshe Nyingpo, a human master who lived in the remote past and taught the Lu. He was a great tantric and Dzogchen master and possessed miraculous powers. For more details please read article @ https://yungdrungbon.co.uk/2025/05/30/lusang-dos-and-donts/

Lusang: do’s and don’ts

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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