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9,842 Anniversary of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche’s Parinirvana

19th November 2025

Today, on the 30th day of the 9th month according to the Horda (Tib. hor-zla) calendar, we are celebrating 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, 9,842 years ago. Through his life and teachings, the Buddha of Yungdrung Bön Tönpa Shenrab showed us the way from suffering to contentment, from strife to peace, and from anguish to ultimate Buddhahood. E Ma HO! PRAYER TO TÖNPA SHENRAB MIWOCHE ཨེ་མ་ཧོ། E-MA-HO! Wonderful!…
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LUSANG & LUTOR with Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin, Sibari 2025

9th October 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/

New translation of the Torma offering to the Lu

23rd August 2025

Today is an auspicious day for propitiating the Lu or Nagas, powerful water spirits who inhabit many features of our landscape, and we are happy to announce the publication of a second simple yet effective ritual to appease these beings, atone for any injury or offence we have caused them, and heal their sicknesses.This text, written by Buddha Tönpa Shenrab himself, can be practised alone or after Sang for the Lu. We have published 3 volumes: Sang for the Lu, Torma Offering to the Lu, and Sang and Torma Offering to the Lu, which contains both texts. Two separate volumes…
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Tӧnpa Shenrab’s 18042nd Birthday Anniversary

12th February 2025

Today, the18042nd Anniversary of Buddha Tӧnpa Shenrab’s birth is being celebrated in Triten Norbutse Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal and many Bӧnpo centres and communities in Tibet and all over the world. On this  day it is very auspicious to recite Tӧnpa Shenrab’s prayer composed by Lachen Drenpa Namkha, which you can download below: And here is an article on the Twelve Deeds of Tӧnpa Shenrab which starts with the First Deed, The Deed of Birth:

Celebration of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche’s Parinirvana

1st December 2024

Today, the 30th day of the 9th month according to the Horda calendar, we are celebrating 9,141th anniversary of Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche’s Paranirvana or Nyangen Ledepa. Through his life and teachings, Buddha of Yungdrung Bön Tönpa Shenrab showed us the way from suffering to contentment, from strife to peace, and from anguish to ultimate Buddhahood. E Ma Ho! 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.…
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