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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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A word on euthanasia from Yongdzin Rinpoche

30th November 2024

Yesterday MPs in the UK Parliament voted in favour of the so-called “assisted dying bill” aka euthanasia. Yongdzin Rinpoche was asked about this during a retreat in Paris in April 1997 when he was teaching on Nyamzhag Gompai Laglen (Tib. Mnyam bzhag sgom pa’i lag len). Here is his response: Q: (a question about euthanasia)A: If someone is dying, terminally ill, it is better not to kill him or her or let them commit suicide because they haven’t worked through their karma yet. You should never kill. A painkiller is not an antidote to karmic cause, it can only alleviate some pain…
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Khandro Sangchöd – Secret Chöd of the Khandro

8th November 2024

We are pleased to share this wonderful rare video from 2006 made by Prof. Donatella Rossi. It shows Menri Pönlob Trinle Nyima Rinpoche giving explanations on Chöd and Bönpo nuns of Yungdrungkha nunnnery, Tibet, performing the Khandro Sangchöd Unified Daily Ritual. We are very happy to continue collaborating with Prof. Donatella Rossi of La Sapienza University, Rome, to preserve the rich ancient traditions of Yungdrung Bön. Many thanks also to Koos van der Velde of FPYB for converting and restoring the original recording. Language: Tibetan with English subtitles. Credits: Footage: Donatella Rossi (interview), Francesco Maniscalco (ritual) Editing: Daniele Pecorelli Music:…
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Nuova collana di libri in italiano / New book series in Italian

29th October 2024

Siamo lieti di annunciare che la FPYB ha ora una nuova pagina web per i libri Bönpo in italiano @ https://yungdrungbon.co.uk/publications/#libri-in-italiano! Tre titoli sono già disponibili e molti altri sono in arrivo. Per ordinare la vostra copia, basta cliccare sul link che vi porterà all’e-mail della Libreria Nuova Avventura che li ha in vendita, oppure a Paola Malatesta che cura i testi di pratica. Si ringraziano Lidia Castellano e Paola per le traduzioni, Massimo Rabassini per la correzione delle bozze, Lorenzo Spadoni e Dmitry Ermakov per l’impaginazione e il design. We are delighted to announce that FPYB now has a…
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Long-Life Practice of Tsewang Rigdzin from །།ཚེ་དབང་མཆོག་འདུས་ཚེའི་སྒྲུབ་གཞུང་བྱ་རི་མ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། now available

12th October 2024

Today, 10th lunar day, is a special day to honour Tsewang Rigdzin. It is also Bookstore Day, and we are happy to present a new publication and share a 10% discount code for all FPYB books printed by Lulu!Use code RAC10GUYM23FR at their checkout. Recently, several people have contacted us about the Long-Life Practice of Tsewang Rigdzin from Tsewang Jyarima cycle as taught and orally translated by Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, so we are making this new re-edited publication available. This book also contains Yongdzin Rinpoche’s explanations on how karmic causes affect our lifespan, the relationship between ‘tse’ and…
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