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

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SAVE THE DATE! Retreat with Drubdra Khenpo in Calabria

Teaching and Meditation Retreat with Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin, 25-28 September 2025 Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin will be returning to Italy for a short residential retreat in September 2025. The retreat will include daily meditation sessions led by Drubdra Khenpo himself, who is the Head of the Meditation School at Triten Norbutse Bönpo Monastery in Nepal. There will also be opportunity to request lung-transmissions from this accomplished Dzogchen master. This retreat will be very special as it is the first time that Bön teachings come to Calabria! The retreat will be in English with Italian translation. Topic to be confirmed…
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SALVATE LA DATA! Ritiro con Drubdra Khenpo in Calabria

Ritiro di insegnamento e meditazione con Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin, 25-28 settembre 2025 Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin tornerà in Italia per un breve ritiro residenziale nel settembre 2025.Il ritiro prevede sessioni quotidiane di meditazione guidate dallo stesso Drubdra Khenpo, un grande maestro di Dzogchen che è il responsabile della Scuola di Meditazione del Monastero Bönpo di Triten Norbutse in Nepal. Ci sarà anche l’opportunità di richiedere le trasmissioni lung a questo esperto maestro.Questo ritiro sarà molto speciale perché è la prima volta che gli insegnamenti Bön arrivano in Calabria!Il ritiro sarà in inglese con traduzione in italiano.L’argomento sarà confermato a…
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Drenpa Namkha Intensive Practice

Today, 22nd March 2025, the monks of Drubdra School at Triten Norbutse Bönpo Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal, begin a seven days and one night intensive practice of THE SECRET PRACTICE OF KHÖPUNG DRENPA’S INNERMOST ESSENCE / ཁོད་སྤུངས་དྲན་པའི་སྙིང་ཐིག་གསང་སྒྲུབ་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་པ་ལེགས་སོ།། led by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin. This is a good opportunity for us lay practitioners to connect with the great sage Drenpa Namkha, too. c Photos: Carol Ermakova & Dmitry Ermakov. Drenpa Namkha at Jarsing Pauwa. Video by D. Ermakov. Those who received face to face transmission and explanations for this practice can join from their home. If you don’t have the text, please…
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Anniversary of Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen ཉམས་མེད་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་དུས་དྲན་མཛད་སྒོ།

Today is the Anniversary of Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen, founder of the Menri Monastery. The monks of Triten Norbutse and lay practitioners are doing rituals, practising and celebrating all day. In the evening there will be a kora and offering of light while reciting the prayer to this great master, the Dechen Gyalpo Prayer. These photos of the statue and grand cloth thangka of Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen were taken in Triten Norbutse Monastery this afternoon, inbetween the main rituals. You can read a concise life story of Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen and download the Dechen Gyalpo Prayer gratis by clicking on buttons…
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FPYB’s contributions to Yongdzin Rinpoche’s Centenary Volume

At the invitation of Khenchen Tenpa Yungdrung, Khenpo Gelek Jinpa and Prof. Charles Ramble, Carol and Dmitry were honoured to contribute chapters to Yongdzin Rinpoche’s Centenary Volume, Celebrating 100 Years of Wisdom. The book includes an Introduction, a short biography of Yongdzin Rinpoche’s remarkable life, as well as contributions by scholars and Yongdzin Rinpoche’s disciples. We have just received the official PDFs of our chapters from Charles Ramble plus our author’s copies from Bidur and Lokesh Dongol of Vajra Publications. Thanks to all those involved in producing this memorable book! We are happy to share our chapters here: Carol Ermakova:…
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