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

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Happy Zhang Zhung Losar!

Greetings to all our friends on this auspicious occasion of Bönpo New Year, the Zhang Zhung Losar! གནམ་ལ་ཉི་ཟླ་སྐར་གསུན་བཀྲ། In the Skies above, sun, moon and stars shine forth! ལོ་བཟང་ཆུ་སྟག་འཛོམ་དྲུག་ཤིས། May the auspicious Water Tiger Year brim with Good Fortune! གསར་བཞད་ལོ་འདིར་འགྲོ་ཀུན་བདེ། May this New Year bring happiness to all beings! ཚེས་བཟང་དུས་བཟང་རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ལེགས། May this auspicious celebration bring prosperity to the land! ཁྱུང་ཉི་གཞོན་ནས། Written by Khyung Nyizhön Translated by Dmitry Ermakov

Three Drenpa Namkhas in Yungdrung Bön

In this article, we will take a brief excursion into the story of Drenpa Namkha, one of the most famous and powerful masters in Yungdrung Bön. According to Yungdrung Bön sources, there were three major emanations of Drenpa Namkha throughout history, and all were great yogis and scholars.

Shakyamuni, Sangwa Düpa and Tsewang Rigdzin

Today we are celebrating the anniversary of Buddha Shakyamuni’s Birth, Enlightenment and Parinirvana. Gautama Buddha is, according to Yungdrung Bon, an emanation of Sangwa Düpa who was a disciple of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwo. Here is an article that takes a look at this connection and also raises some interesting questions. After all, it was Buddha Shakyamuni himself who said:

5th International Conference on the Phenomenon of the Holy Mt. Kailash

Mount Kailash, or Gang Tise, as the Tibetans call it, is one of the world’s holiest mountains. It is revered by Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Bönpo alike. This conference will bring together experts from all around the globe to discuss why Mt. Kailash and its environs play a central role in these ancient belief systems.

HAPPY ZHANG ZHUNG LOSAR!

Happy Zhang Zhung Losar to all our friends! May it be an auspicious year for everyone! ཞང་ཞུང་ལོ་གསར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།

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