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

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Non-doing that Leaves No Trace – new revised edition of Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche’s teachings on Jadral Jeme

Basic Nature is unchangeable. The Path is unconfused. The Fruit is non-changing and beyond any activities. The way to remain in and practise this Nature is to simply leave it as it is without modifying, fabricating or mixing anything. Dear Friends! We are delighted to share with you a new revised edition of Yongdzin Lopon Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche’s teachings on Jadral Jeme (Bya bral rjes med / བྱ་བྲལ་རྗེས་མེད): Non-doing that leaves No Trace. These teachings are from the Exceedingly Secret section of the Zhang Zhung Nyengyu Dzogchen cycle (Yang gsang gnas lugs phugs chod / ཡང་གསང་གནས་ལུགས་ཕུགས་ཆོད།) and Rinpoche taught them…
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Period of intensive Drenpa Namkha practice

Today marks the start of an 8-day intensive practice of Drenpa Namkha in Triten Norbutse Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal. Drenpa Namkha is a great Yungdrung Bön mahasiddha who manifested many forms in many different places over millennia, and who saved Yungdrung Bön from destruction when the doctrines faced persecution more than once, Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche (1926-2025) is considered an incarnation of Drenpa Namkha and he, too, worked tirelessly to restore and preserve Yungdrung Bön in Tibet and beyond when the tradition was in dire need because of the Cultural Revolution. More information about Drenpa Namkha can be found in…
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Yongdzin Rinpoche’s Birth Anniversary – The meaning of the word ‘lama’

Today, on the 15th day in the 2nd month in the Shen system (15th day of the 1st month in the Horda system) we celebrate the birthday anniversary of one of the greatest lamas of the 20th-21st centuries, Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, the Supreme Teacher of the Yungdrung Bön tradition. Yongdzin Rinpoche was an incredible scholar and practitioner endowed with immeasurable compassion and wisdom. He dedicated his life to the restoration, preservation and dissemination of Yungdrung Bön, saving it from serious damage during yet another persecution, the Cultural Revolution. Thanks to his unbendable deep devotion, profound knowledge of Tönpa…
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Practice of Jamma, Goddess of Loving Kindness, now out in Italian / La pratica di Giamma, Dea della Gentilezza Amorevole, ora disponibile in italiano

Ottime notizie! [English below] Il nostro primo ebook in italiano è ora disponibile! GIAMMA:  Dea della Saggezza Compassionevole e della Gentilezza Amorevole è disponibile sia in versione cartacea @ https://shorturl.at/ttrCx che ebook @ https://shorturl.at/QHt30 Oltre agli insegnamenti di Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, questo piccolo libro contiene due brevi pratiche con la Dea della Gentilezza Amorevole, Giamma. Emanazione del Buddha femminile del Bön, Satrig Ersang, Giamma è la grande madre amorevole che protegge da tutte le paure, e per questo abbiamo incluso anche una preghiera essenziale a questa potente divinità. Dalla Prefazione “Gli insegnamenti sulla Dea della Saggezza, della Compassione…
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Birthday Anniversaries of Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche & His Son, Prince Kongtsa Yungdrung Wangden

According to traditional Bönpo Chronology (Tib. Bstan-rtsis) Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche (Tib. Ston pa Gshen rab Mi bo che) – whose original name was Mura Tahen (Tib. Dmu-ra ta-han) – was born in the country of Wolmo Lungring (Tib. ‘Ol-mo lung-ring), the central region of the larger country of Tagzig (Tib. Rtag-gzigs/Stag-gzig), in the Wood Male Mouse Year (i.e. in 16,017 BC), on the fifteenth day of the first month of Spring, the Fire Tiger month (Tib. me-stag-gi zla-ba). So this year 1st February 2026 marks the 18,043rd anniversary of the First Deed of Yungdrung Bön’s Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche –…
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