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Prayer to Lachen Drenpa Namkha

22nd June 2025

This Prayer to Lachen Drenpa Namkha was extracted and compiled by Menri Yongdzin Lopön Sanggye Tenzin from a prophecy by Drenpa Namkha contained in the Oral Tradition of Trülku Loden Nyingpo. It is imbued with great profound meaning and concludes with the heart mantra of Drenpa Namkha. Many great lamas consider Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche an emanation of Drenpa Namkha, therefore it is particularly auspicious that Rinpoche himself translated this prayer into English for us. It was one of his daily prayers. A few days ago, Khenchen Tenpa Yungdrung advised the international sangha to recite this heart mantra as…
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Prayer & Offering to Lamhla, Goddess of the Path

9th February 2024

Dear Friends! We are delighted to share a very special prayer with you. In 2006, Yongdzin Rinpoche gave us this short invocation to Lamhla, the Goddess of the Path, and we translated it together. The image of Lamhla is a photo from an old tsakali somewhere in Tibet, taken by Ans Swart. We have edited the translation and added the original Tibetan and phonetic transliteration. This short prayer can be recited as a short sang offering. The image and prayer can be kept on your mobile or tablet etc. It can be scaled to any size and printed back-to-back, any…
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Anniversary of Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche’s Parinirvana

13th November 2023

Today is the Anniversary of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche (Tib. Rgyal-ba Ston-pa Gshen-rab Mi-bo-che) completing the Twelfth Deed, The Deed of Realisation (Tib. rnam-par grub-pa’i mdzad-pa), when he achieved nyangen ledepa (Tib. mya-ngan las’das-pa) or parinirvana in 7817 BC, 9,840 years ago. PRAYER TO TÖNPA SHENRAB MIWOCHE ཨེ་མ་ཧོ། E-MA-HO! Wonderful! མ་རིག་བློ་ཡི་མུན་སེལ་སྒྲོན་མའི་མཆོག། MA-RIG LO YI MÜN-SEL DRON-MAI CHOG O Supreme Lamp of Mind which clears away darkness, ཉོན་མོངས་ནད་སེལ་འཕྲུལ་ངག་བདུད་རྩིའི་སྨན། NYON-MONG NE-SEL THRUL NGAG DÜD-TSI-MEN Your Speech is the supreme medicine which cures the afflictions of emotions. འཁོར་བའི་འདམ་ཀེམས་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཉི་འོད་ཆེ། KHOR-WAI DAM KEM YE-SHE NYI-WÖ-CHE Your Wisdom Light dries the swamps of samsara. རིགས་དྲུག་བདེར་འཁོད་ཨུད་འབར་རྒྱན་གཅིག་པོ། RIG-DRUG…
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Anniversary of Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen

24th February 2023

Today, on the fifth day of the first lunar month according to the Tibetan calendar, Bönposcelebrate the 667th anniversary of Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen (Tib. Mnyam-med Shes-rab rgyal-mtshan, 1356-1415), a reincarnation of an early Bönpo mahasiddha (Tib. grub-thob), Tonggyung Thuchen (Tib. Stong-rgyung mthu-chen). So we are happy to offer a bilingual Tibetan-English version of the Dechen Gyalpo prayer to Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen as a free download. You also can read a concise biography of Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen by following the link below: Best wishes, FPYB Team

18040th Anniversary of Tönpa Shenrab Miwo’s Birth and Birthday of  Kongtsa Yungdrung Wangden

5th February 2023

Tönpa Shenrab – whose original name was Mura Tahen (Tib. Dmu-ra ta-han) – was born on the fifteenth day of the first month of Spring (Tib. me-stag-gi zla-ba) in the country of Olmo Lungring (Tib. ‘Ol-mo lung-ring), the central region of the larger country of Tagzig (Tib. Rtag-gzigs/Stag-gzig). It was in the Wood Male Mouse Year i.e. in 16,017 BC according to traditional Bönpo Chronology (Tib. Bstan-rtsis). So this year marks the 18040th anniversary of the First Deed of Yungdrung Bön’s Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche (Tib. Ston pa Gshen rab Mi bo che) – the Deed of Birth (Tib. Sku…
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