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

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New book of essential Dzogchen teachings

We are delighted to bring you a new book of essential Dzogchen teachings! The fruit of two retreats led by Gomdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin in Tuscany, Italy, Spreading Supreme Wisdom is a meticulously edited transcript of Khenpo’s detailed teachings on a truly special text – Spreading Supreme Wisdom: Concise Explanation and Commentary on the Supplication Prayer to Lord Tapihritsa, Mind Emanation of Kuntu Zangpo / རྗེ་ཏ་པི་ཧྲི་ཙའི་གསོལ་འདེབས་ཀུན་བཟང་ཐུགས་སྤྲུལ་མའི་འགྲེལ་བ་མདོར་བསྡུས་ཤིག་བཀོད་པ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རབ་འཕེལ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། by Chyabje Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche. In this Commentary, Yongdzin Rinpoche reveals the profound meaning behind the Prayer to the Great Master Tapihritsa uttered by Gyerpung Nangzher Lödpo during his first encounter with…
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Chime Tsugphü’s Birth Anniversary

Today, 8th day of the 2nd month in the Shen system[1] (8th day of the 1st month of Horda system)[2] is the Anniversary of Chime Tusgphü’s[3] birth. His name means Deathless One with a Precious Topknot, and he is also known as Salwa,[4] which means Clarity. A previous incarnation of the Buddha of Yungdrung Bön, Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche,[5] Chime Tsugphü is the eighth Buddha in the Mind-to-Mind Transmission Lineage of the Buddhas.[6] He was born in the pure dimension[7] of Sipa Yesang,[8] the Primordially Pure Realm, and his parents are both Buddhas. His father is Buddha Thrulshen Nangden,[9] Shen of…
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Tuscany & London: Dzogchen retreats with Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin

Drubdra Khenpo flies back to Triten Norbutse tomorrow after two intense weeks of teachings, transmissions, meditation and rituals. Our heartfelt thanks for his great generosity! Italy It was Khenpo’s second visit to Tuscany co-hosted by Paola Malatesta and we were happy to welcome many old students as well as several new ones. Khenpo taught from Yongdzin Rinpoche’s commentary on the Prayer to Tapihritsa by Gurub Nangzher Lӧpo which he began last year and led morning and evening meditation sessions. On the last day, he surprised us by giving many lung-transmissions. We are already looking forward to the next Italian retreat,…
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New Year – New Book by Yongdzin Rinpoche: The Practice of Equanimous Contemplation

We are delighted to start the New Year 2025 with the publication of a new volume of Yongdzin Rinpoche’s Dzogchen teachings. Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche gave these teachings on Nyamzhag Gompai Laglen: The Practice of Equanimous Contemplation from the Oral Transmission of Zhang Zhung, in the Shambhala Centre, Paris, in April 1997. The text is contained in the first section of Zhang Zhung Nyengyu, The General Presentation of the Outer Views, and deals with all aspects of Dzogchen practice starting from general Preliminaries, through tregchö and thögal, and ending with instructions on practice at the time of death and…
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Essential Dzogchen Teachings from Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin

རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཞང་ཞུང་སྙན་རྒྱུད་ལས་ཕྱི་ལྟ་བ་སྤྱི་གཅོད་ཀྱི་མན་ངག་ལེའུ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ་ལས།། རྣམ་རྟོག་ཐོལ་གྱིས་སྐྱེས་པ་དེ། །གཅེར་གྱིས་ལྟས་པས་ཁྲོལ་གྱིས་གྲོལ། །གཏད་མེད་ཡེ་ཤེས་ས་ལེ་བ། །ཐོད་རྒལ་ཡེཤེས་བྱ་བ་ཡིན། “Suddenly a thought appears. Look back, and watcher, watched and watching liberate by themselves into their own nature. In this instant, your Dzogchen awareness appears clearly to you. That is Direct Wisdom.” This quotation is just four sentences, but they are very, very important. We believe these words first appeared from Kuntu Zangpo. From: Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin. How to Practise Dzogchen in Daily Life: Teachings by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin in Triten Norbutse Monastery, Kathmandu, on the occasion of Yongdzin Rinpoche’s 95th birthday, February 2020 (UK: FPYB, 2021), p. 6. Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin,…
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