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Background on Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche

Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, senior teacher of the
Bon tradition, was forced to leave his homeland when the Chinese invaded Tibet in the late 1950s. He later established the Triten Norbutse Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal to carry on the Bon Buddhist tradition.

The Bon Foundation was founded in 1989 to assist Bonpo refugees who settled in India and help preserve the ancient traditions of Bon, the indigenous culture of Tibet. Today there are approximately two million Bonpo still in Tibet. On behalf of the Bon patriarch, His Holiness the Menri Trizin 33rd, and the Yungdrung Bon Monastic Society, our work promotes the survival of Bon culture and the welfare of its people. We focus on the health, education, and welfare of over 400 Bon children and adults at Menri Monastery. We need your help to continue our work for the Bon!

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Rinpoche became a monk at the age of 15 and was elected to the position of lopon (head teacher) in 1953. He also earned his geshe degree (equivalent to a Ph.D.) from Menri Monastery in Tibet in 1953. He fled to Nepal in 1960 to escape the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Rinpoche next went to London on a Rockefeller scholarship were he published "The Nine Ways of Bon," the first scholarly study of the Bon tradition in the West. In 1964, he founded a Settlement for Bonpo people in exile at Dolanji in Himachal Pradesh, Northern India. Next he established a traditional dialectic school to preserve the Bonpo philosophical tradition at Menri Monastery in Dolanji. Later in 1987, Yongdzin Rinpoche founded the Bon monastery Triten Norbutse, in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Lopon's 80th Birthday Party February 2005

I was honored and fortunate enough to be present during Lopon Tenzin Namkak's 80th birthday celebration in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2005. You would not have believed how many Tibetans had made the trek all the way over the Himalayas to honor him on this occassion! Wow, there were HUNDREDS. This was an all day event with traditional Tibetan dancers and singers and a huge banquet. What fun. You missed a GREAT party!

Here are some of my pictures from this event in February 2005. If you click on the thumbnail image you can see a larger photo. Enjoy!

Heart Drops of Dharmakaya

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Heart Drops of Dharmakaya

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Review By Neal J. Pollock (VA USA)

This is a very fine book on Dzogchen whether you are Buddhist or Bon or neither. It's clear, pithy, and lacking much of the dogma found in many other Dzogchen and Mahamudra books available today. It's strongly recommended.

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The Twenty-One Nails Volume II. Oral commentaries by Lopon Tenzin Namdak and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

by: Lopon Tenzin Namdak, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

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The Zhang Zhung Nyan Gyud is the pure Dzogchen view, and the most esoteric aspect of the Bon tradition.

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Tenzin Wangyal says Sangye Tenzin - the first Lopon of Minri Monastery's School of Dialectics - was "in my opinion, the was the greatest Bon scholar of his generation."

Watch This Great Video on the Bon Religion

The story of one monk - Mustang to Menri: Andrea Heckman, is producing a documentary film about a monk born in the region of Mustang in western Nepal that to goes to Menri Monastery to study for his geshe degree, and then returns to his homeland to help his people.

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The Bon Religion of Tibet

The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living Tradition

by: Per Kvaerne

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The Bon religion claims to be the original and authentic religion of the Tibetan people, firmly established in the Land of Snows long before Buddhism was introduced in the seventh century CE. Although its adherents were gradually reduced to a minority, Bon has nevertheless continued to flourish in many areas up to the present day in Tibet, especially in the eastern and northeastern regions, where a reconstruction renaissance is taking place, as well as within the Bon community in exile from Tibet. The iconography of the Bon religion is presented through a series of thangkas, miniatures, and bronzes from public and private collections in the West, as well as from communities within Tibet. The peaceful, tutelary, protector, and local deities, as well as the Bon siddhas, lamas, and dakinis, are identified and fully described by means of excerpts from ritual or biographical texts that are translated here.

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The Seed Syllable of the Five Wisdoms - Om also spelled Aum or Ohm

Here is the break down of the parts of this symbol:

A - dharmakaya - wisdom of emptiness

Naro - sambhogakaya - mirror-like wisdom

Crescent moon - nirmanakaya - discriminating wisdom

Tigle - essential kaya - wisdom of equanimity

a chung - embodiment of bodhicitta - all-accomplishing wisdom

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Rinpoche Offers Retreats on a Regular Basis

These retreats take place in France at the Shenten Dargye Ling - see picture below.

Yongdzin Rinpoche recently transmitted to us the cycle of Dzogchen Yongtse Longchen, The Peak of All, Great Expanse. This text was written by the great ancient master Nyachen Lishu Tagring as a commentary on Dzogchen Dragpa Korsum, the Cycle of Three Proclamation, one of the four major Dzogchen Cycles. Having been concealed during the persecution of Bon in the eighth century, it was later discovered by Zhoeton Ngoedup Dragpa in 1088, from the temple of Khomthing in Lodrak, south Tibet. This would be the first time this Cycle of teaching has been transmitted in the West directly by Yongdzin Rinpoche.

Also Yongdzin Rinpoche and Khenpo Tenpa Yungdrung taught on Gyalwa Chagtri.

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Terry Smith Terry Smith Nov 14, 2008 @ 2:41 pm

I LOVE Yongdzin Rinpoche. What an honor to study with him! Great site - thanks

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