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Connections between Siberian Shamanism, Bön and Taoism

9th June 2024

This article is an adaptation of a talk given in Italian on 22nd January, 2023 for Tianwu – Scuola di Medicina Classica Cinese e Arti Taoiste. Thanks to Carol Ermakova for translating it into English.  Topics covered Introduction to the shamanism of Siberia and Central Asia Prehistoric Bön of Eurasia Bön as a multifaceted phenomenon. The word ‘bön’ Etymology of the word ‘bön’ Meaning of the word ‘bön’ Four types of Bönpo religions Prehistoric Bön Yungdrung Bön Doctrines of Yungdrung Bön New Bön Mixed Bön Bө Murgel Bön of the Deer Differences between Bө Murgel and Yungdrung Bön Possible vectors via…
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Happy Zhang Zhung Losar! ཞང་ཞུང་ལོ་གསར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།

12th January 2024

གནམ་ལ་ཤིང་འབྲུག་ཕྱག་ན་ནོར་བུ་བཀྲ།།May the radiant Wish-fulfilling Jewel held by the Wood Dragon soaring in the Sky aboveལོ་འདིར་འདོད་དགུ་ཕྱྭ་གཡང་ས་གཞིར་ཤིས།།Bring good luck and prosperity as well as fulfilment of all wishes in this year!གསར་ཚེས་རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ནད་ནུག་ཞི་ཤིང་བདེ།།And may all diseases and negativities in your county be utterly pacified!ཚེས་བཟང་ཕུན་ཚོགས་འགྲོ་་ཀུན་དགའ་བདེ་ལེགས།།And may this celebration bring to all beings joy, peace grace, glory and wealth! (Translated by Dmitry Ermakov) ཨེ་མ་ཧོ།E MA HO!Marvellous!ཚེ་ཡི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཚེ་རིང་ནད་མེད་ཤོགTSE YI GYAL PO TSE RING NE ME SHOGMay we possess excellent long-life free from illness!འདོད་པའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཕུན་སུམ་འཚོགས་པར་ཤོགDÖ PAI GYAL PO PÜN SUM TSOG PAR SHOGMay we obtain the excellent accumulation of grace, glory and wealth!བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་པོ་འཕེལ་ཞིང་བརྟན་པར་ཤོགSÖ NAM GYAL PO PHEL ZHING TEN PAR…
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Книга «Мастера Жанг-Жунг Ньенджью» вышла в свет

13th March 2023

Друзья, мы рады сообщить, что сегодня вышла в свет новая книга учений Верховного Учителя тибетской духовной традиции юнгдрунг бӧн Йонгдзина Лопӧна Тэндзина Намдака Ринпоче. «Мастера Жанг-Жунг Ньенджью: Сущностные наставления Линии духовной преемственности опыта Бӧнпо Дзогчена» содержит наставления по древнейшему на Земле циклу дзогчена Жанг-Жунг Ньенджью, впервые опубликованные на русском языке для широкой публики. Книга снабжена цветными репродукциями миниатюрных икон мастеров этой традиции и вкладкой, на русском и тибетском, со схемой Линиий духовной преемственности лам этого цикла дзогчена с древнейших времен вплоть до наших дней. Вступление и перевод Дмитрия Ермакова. Этот совместный проект реализован Исследовательским центром тибетской культуры и религии «Юнгдрунг…
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Conference Presentations in Print

8th April 2022

Two recent video presentations by Dmitry Ermakov, Foundation for the Preservation of Yungdrung Bön, UK, at the 5th International Conference on the Phenomenon of the Holy Mt. Kailash, Universitӓt Hamburg, 25-27 March 2022, are now published in written form. The Importance of Mt. Kailash in the Bön Religion can be read here: The Magical Duel between Milarepa and Naro Bönchung: Who Really Won? can be read here:

The Importance of Mt. Kailash in the Bön Religion

31st March 2022

Abstract: Being the most important sacred geographical feature of Zhang Zhung and Tibet, Mt. Kailash was venerated by Bönpos of various creeds from times immemorial. In this talk I will firstly give a brief discourse on the four types of Bön religions to set the scene. I will then examine how the Dhami tradition of Humla, Nepal is connected to the Kailash region. The rest of the talk will focus on the role Mt. Kailash plays in Yungdrung Bön teachings and history: the meaning of its name in the Zhang Zhung language; Mt. Kailash and Lake Mapang as la-receptacles of…
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