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Stages of A-Khrid Meditation, Dzogchen Practice of the Bon Tradition
By: Bru-sgom rGyal-ba g.yung-drung
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This work represents one tradition of th system of meditation known as "The Great Perfection" (rdzogs pa chen po), in the form of a methodical and practical guide for those noble beings who set themselves the task of leading others to enlightenment through the practice of the Great Perfection.
The A-Khrid teachings regarding the Ultimate Origin-(A) is believed to have a historical source in the great lama rMe'u dGongs-mdzod(1038-1096). This translation presents a condensed version of his original composition, written by Bru-sgom rGyal gyung-drung(1242-1296).
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Inexhaustible Miracles: The Ten Perfections on the Path of Compassionate Beings
By: Tempa Dukte Lama
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The Ten Perfections are keys that open the door to inexhaustible miracles in our life. They are heart practices of compassionate beings through which we perfect our actions of body, speech, and mind. The Ten Perfections are manifestations of compassion in our living experience. The Ten Perfections are divided into two parts. The first five are the causal Perfections: the Perfections of generosity, wholesome conduct, patience, effort and concentration. The second five are the Perfections of fruition: The Perfections of power, aspirational prayers, skillful means, and discriminating awareness. As compassionate beings, we nurture our wholesome qualities through the causal Perfections. Once our practice bears fruit, the Perfections become a skillful means to help all beings. The qualities of the Ten Perfections and their expressions in our lives are infinite on the path to realizing our awakened nature.
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Intimate Mind: Illuminating Emotion and Transformation
By: Tempa Dukte Lama
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Our recognition of our potential to awaken is the basis of the spiritual practice according to Bon. Through this knowledge we have the choice to either remain as we are or to transform our mind and our life. This thought that turns the mind toward its essence is the aspiration of the Intimate Mind. It allows us to approach whatever we encounter with genuine feelings of love, compassion, and care; a capacity that is calm and poised keeping us strong, stable, and clear, without fear, chaos or judgment. Tempa Dukte Lama helps us remember our potential of innate goodness. Based on this recognition, he offers teachings from the three Bon paths of Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen that will guide us on the path of transformation.
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Tibetan Sound Healing: Seven Guided Practices for Clearing Obstacles, Accessing Positive Qualities, and Uncovering your Inherent Wisdom
By: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
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Seven Guided Practices for Clearing Obstacles, Accessing Positive Qualities, and Uncovering your Inherent Wisdom
One of the world’s oldest unbroken spiritual traditions is that of the Bön people—the indigenous people of Tibet, whose teachings predate the arrival of Buddhism. These traditions have survived political persecution and upheaval thanks to the efforts of a handful of dedicated lamas such as Bön lineage holder Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Now with Tibetan Sound Healing, practitioners can connect to the ancient sacred sounds of the Bön practice—and through them, activate the healing potential of the natural mind. The Bön healing tradition invokes The Five Warrior Syllables—"seed" sounds that bring us to the essential nature of mind and release the boundless creativity and positive qualities that are fundamental to our natural consciousness. Through the medicine of sound, practitioners learn to clear obstacles on the level of the body, the energetic and emotional dimensions of being, and the spiritual consciousness.
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On Zhang Zhung
By: Seigbert Hummel
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The country of Zhang-zhung, the stronghold of the ancient Bon religion, is generally believed to have been situated at the western end of Tibet, in the region around Mount Kailasa. Religious Bon texts handed down to us in Tibetan translations mention the fact that these texts were originally written in the language of Zhang-zhung, but due to the scarcity of material in this language, many scholars tended to dismiss this as a fabrication of the Bonpos.
In this book Professor Hummel revisits the whole issue of Zhang-zhung, concentrating particularly on its language, but also on the actual size and geographical position of this kingdom.
The studies presented here bring a host of new, almost provocative ideas, suggesting that Zhang-zhung was a vast confederacy of states stretching all the way from western to north-eastern Tibet, and that its language was in fact no artificial product, tracing its origins to eastern Tibetan regions of Si-hia and mi-nyag. With the help of Zhang-zhung, the author even sheds new light on the meaning of the old Tibetan kings’ names.
Without any pretentions to have fully resolved the issue of understanding the Zhang-zhung language, the author opens up new perspectives for future research.
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Instructions on the Primordial A, The Fifteen Sessions of Practice, Guru Yoga, and Phowa Teachings
By: Jean-Luc Achard
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This volume is mostly based on the French translations and abridgements that have been prepared as private complements to the teachings of HH Menri Trizin Rinpoche given in the USA and which have been transcribed for the Bonpo Foundation. The present work is a very humble contribution to the knowledge of the A dhrid system of teachings dedicated to the long life of his Holiness and to support his activities in respect of the tradition and the continuity of its principles.
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Chod Practice in the Bon Tradition
By: Alejandro Chaoul
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This book is the first to trace the history of Chöd practice in Tibet's indigenous Bön tradition. Chöd ("cutting through") is a meditative practice in which the practitioner imagines offering his or her body in sacrifice through elaborate contemplative visualization. Although a meditative practice, Chöd is not done sitting comfortably on a cushion in a shrine room, but instead is often practiced in terrifying places like cemeteries or charnal grounds. The feelings of fear that result are used by the Chöd practitioner to "cut through" his or her own ego. Chöd contains elements of early shamanism, of sutric and tantric teachings also found in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, and of the Tibetan highest school of Dzogchen.
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Heart Drops of Dharmakaya
By: Shardra Tashi Gyaltsen
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Here for the first time in English is a complete Dzogchen meditation manual from the ancient religious tradition of Tibet known as Bon. The Kunzang Nying-tig by Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen is a powerful and practical instructional text which cuts to the heart of Dzogchen meditation. Dzogchen is regarded by Bonpos as the highest and most esoteric religious practice.
Written in the style of personal instruction from Shardza to his students, the manual is supplemented with a commentary by Lopon Tenzin Namdak, who is himself an acknowledged master of Dzogchen. The translation was carried out by Lopon in the course of teaching the text to Western students at his monastery in the Kathmandu Valley.
The book has four parts: preliminary practices, the practice of trekcho, the practice of tongel, and bardo and phowa practices. Also included are a discussion of the rainbow body, a short history of Bon, and biographies of the authors.
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Treasury of Good Sayings, A History of Bon
By: Samten Karmay
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The Legs bshad mdzod, which is here edited and translated into English for the first time, is a history of Tibetan religion known as Bon. It gives a full account of this ancient religion, its origins and development, its struggles against the later imported Buddhism, and its fight for survival in spite of persecution and even abolition on two occasions. The reassembly of the scriptures dispersed at these times is major object of attention.
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Opening the Door to Bon
By: Nyima Dakpa Rinpoche
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Bon, the ancient pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet, is still practiced today, with a rapidly growing number of readers interested in the shamanism and magic that are part of its complete path to liberation. Full of practical and explicit instructions, this handbook for Westerners details the outer and inner fundamental Bon practices. This volume is part of a first wave of Bon books that are finding an enthusiastic North American audience.
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Bonpo Dzogchen Teachings
By: Lopon Tenzin Namdak & John Myrdhin Reynolds (editor)
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Nowadays there are two principal philosophical traditions followed by Tibetan Lamas. The first is found among the Sarmapas, or Newer Schools, which employ the Prasangika Madhyamaka view of Chandrakirti, not only in explicating the real meaning of the Sutra system but also in their interpretation of the Tantras. The second is found among the two Older Schools, the Nyingmapa and the Bonpo, which emphasize the Dzogchen point of view in elucidating their understanding of the Higher Tantras. Among the Older Schools, Dzogchen, “the Great Perfection”, which lies beyond the process of Tantric transformation, is regarded as the quintessential teaching of the Buddha, pointing directly to the Nature of Mind and its intrinsic awareness, known as Rigpa.
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Three Precepts: From the Oral Transmission of the Great Perfection in Zhangzhung
By: Lopon Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche / Jean-Luc Achard
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The full title of the text presented in this volume is The Four Lamps of the Arising Mode ('char tshui sgron ma bzhi) referring to the arising mode of the visions of the natural state explained according to four mometnts or Lamps. The notion of Lamps is to be understood here in a particular way, as a clarification associated with a specific theme or idea. The visions of the natural state are collectively known as "the three manifestations" which are displays of sounds ( sgra), lights ( od) and rarys ( zer). The manifestations which arise in this unceasing mode are defined as the natural expression or the dynamism of the non dual emptiness and Clarity of the Base. They are explained here according to the four modalities: 1. their spontaneous abiding on the Base of the natural state, 2. their arising due to temporary causes or circumstances 3. their arising during the practice of the Path, and 4. their arising at the time of the Bardo.-
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Philosophical View of the Great Perfection in the Tibetan Bon Religion
By: Donatella Rossi
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Dzogchen, or the Great Perfection, is considered by both Bonpos and the followers of the Nyingma School in Tibet to be the culmination of all spiritual teachings. The philosophical view of the Great Perfection introduces the individual to the knowledge of reality, which is one with the enlightened state of all beings. In this book the Dzogchen view is presented in two Bonpo texts belonging to the revered terma (treasure0 and oral traditions, here for the first time translated and critically edited in their entirity.
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Little Luminous Boy: The Oral Tradition from the Land of Zhangzhung depicted on two Tibetan Paintings
By: Samten G. Karmay
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A detailed exposition of the Bon secret oral tradition from Zhang-Zhung in western Tibet, and its transmission by recognized masters up till the present. Richly illustrated with exquisite details from two thangka paintings. A pioneering work by a highly renowned scholar, of interest to art historians as well as students of meditation and Tibetan religious and cultural traditions.
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Unbounded Wholeness: Dzogchen, Bon, and the Logic of the Nonconceptual
By: Anne C. Klein & Tenzin Wangyal
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Dzogchen, meaning "great perfection" in Tibetan, is an advanced practice associated particularly with Bon, the native religion of Tibet, and the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. Both these traditions describe their teaching as comprising 'nine Ways' or paths of practice leading to enlightenment or realization, and in both classifications, Dzogchen is the ninth and highest Way. While its immediate associations are with these two traditions, Dzogchen is now taught in all Tibetan sects. In this book, Anne Klein, an American scholar of Buddhism, and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, a native Tibetan who was one of the first to bring Dzogchen teachings to the west, provide a study and translation of the Authenticity of Open Awareness, a foundational text of the Bon Dzogchen tradition. This will be the first time any text from this tradition has been translated into any Western language, and as such will be a major contribution to the study of Tibetan religion and Eastern thought more generally. Klein and Rinpoche also provide extensive introductory and explanatory material that situates the text in the context of Tibetan thought and makes it accessible to nonspecialists.
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Heart Essence of the Khandro: Experiential Instructions on Bonpo Dzogchen
By: Yongdzin Lopon Tenzin Namdak Carol Ermakova and Dmitry Ermakov, Nagu Geshe Gelek Jinpa
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It is rare to find a recorded lineage of female teachers in either Bn or Tibetan Buddhism, but here thirty heart teachings of Bn Khandro are being made publicly available in English for the first time. In fact, this book combines many unique features in one concise volume.
First and foremost, the Dzogchen Yetri Thasel Mogyud, a succession of women from all over Central and Inner Asia who received precious Dzogchen teachings, and went on to achieve complete Buddhahood within one lifetime. These amazing ladies of wisdom practised with perseverance in a variety of circumstances and, gaining insight into the true Nature of their own minds, they obtained miraculous powers and passed on the essence of their experience to a single female disciple. These quintessential pith instructions were collected like precious drops of nectar and written down by the eighth century Bnpo sage Lachen Drenpa Namkha.
Yongdzin Lopn Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, the most erudite teacher of Yungdrung Bn, has taught on this text twice in the West, and the transcripts have been edited and amalgamated here. The book also includes a translation of the root text.
Another major feature of this publication is the specially commissioned thangka of this cycle of Khandro painted by Geshe Mnlam. Images of this female lineage are extremely rare, and Yongdzin Rinpoche consulted various texts to compile a detailed description of each lady. This text is also included here, and the image of each Khandro is printed alongside her heart teachings enabling the reader to invoke her blessings while reading.
The second half of the book is dedicated to the last yogini in this lineage, Chza Bnmo, who not only fully realized the ultimate meaning of Dzogchen but also played a pivotal role in saving the teachings of Yungdrung Bn from almost certain annihilation during the eighth century persecution in the reign of the Tibetan king Trisong Deutsen. As an inspiration to Western students, Nagru Geshe Gelek Jinpa has compiled her biography by extracting key episodes of her spiritual path - the teachings she received from her two main masters Lachen Drenpa Namkha and Lishu Tagring, how she practised, and her inspiring Song of Experience. This is a path which, with the guidance of the teachings translated here, we can all aspire to follow.
Apart from the transcript of Yongdzin Rinpoche's teaching, this is a bi-lingual publication in English and Tibetan.
Also included are:
Prayers to Drenpa Namkha and Chza Bnmo; poster of the complete Khandro cycle thangka; 25+ colour plates with the images of individual Khandro, Drenpa Namkha, Lishu Tagring etc.
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Treasury of Good Sayings, A History of Bon
By: Karmy, Samten
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The Legs bshad mdzod, which is here edited and translated into English for the first time, is a history of Tibetan religion known as Bon. It gives a full account of this ancient religion, its origins and development, its struggles against the later imported Buddhism, and its fight for survival in spite of persecution and even abolition on two occasions. The reassembly of the scriptures dispersed at these times is major object of attention.
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Divine Dyads Ancient Civilization in Tibet
By: John Vincent Bellezza
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Divine Dyads: Ancient Civilization in Tibet aims to comprehensively document the cultural and religious history of a neglected but vital part of Tibet, the Divine Dyads of the Byang thang. This work marshals a wide variety of resources in expounding the history and culture of these two areas, each revolving around a mountain and lake of epic geographical and mythological proportions. The focus of this work is the development of indigenous religion and mythology in these areas and its impact on the culture of the Byang thang and Tibet in general.
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Dream Yoga Visualization Card Set
By: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
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The Dream Yoga Visualization Card Set is designed to be used as a companion to the book The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. The card set provides the essential points of the Dream Yoga practice, as well as beautiful meditation images to support and inspire the practitioner during each stage of the practice. Practice supports included are: Nine breathings of purification, Zhine, Four foundational practices of the day, Preparatory practice before sleep, Essential points of the main practice and Four tasks, qualities, and stages of the dream yoga practice.
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Bon: Its Encounter with Buddhism in Tibet
By: B. L. Bansal
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Bon is the native religion of Tibet while Buddhism was introduced into that country from India in the seventh century A.D. or there abouts under Royal patronage. This book is so designed as to help those who are interested to know about the Tibetan Religions particularly Buddhism and Bon and like to understand the distinction between them.
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Drung, Deu and Bon
By: Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche
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Drung, Deu and Bon offers a rare opportunity to explore pre Buddhist Tibetan
culture, presented within the three categories commonly described as the
foundation of the kingdom of Tibet- drung (narrations), deu (symbolic languages),
and the Bon tradition.
In this important work, Professor Namkhai Norbu begins by investigating the
epic poems and legends of Tibets secular culture. He then turns his attention to the
mysteries of the ancient symbolic languages that conveyed wisdom inexpressible in
conventional terms; and he concludes by elucidating the complexities of the pre-Buddhist Bon religion in the context of its 12 lores or sciences.
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Masters of the Zhang Zhung Nyengyud: Pith instructions from the experiential transmission of Bonpo Dzogchen, transcribed and ed. by Carol Ermakova et al.
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Each master's heart teachings are printed alongside his full colour image. These reproductions of traditional tsakali
initiation cards, painted in Tibet before the Chinese invasion, help
the reader connect to the teachings in a direct and intimate way, and
are an inspiring aid to Guru Yoga practice.
The Zhang Zhung Nyengyud is the most ancient
Dzogchen cycle still practised today. It began with the primordial
Buddha, Kuntu Zangpo, ran through a lineage of nine Dersheg-Buddhas,
then through Masters from the Deva and Naga realms, arriving in the
realm of humans in the country of Tagzig, from where it passed into
Zhang Zhung and Tibet in prehistoric times. It has never been
interrupted nor have the teachings been concealed; they are still very
much alive today, a great source of unmodified Dzogchen.
The informative Introduction by Dmitry Ermakov (author of Bө and Bn)
examines some key points of the Dzogchen path, and takes a quick look
at different types of Bn and the dissemination of Yungdrung Bon in
Zhang Zhung and Tibet against the backdrop of Central and Inner Asian
history. The question of the origins of Bnpo and Buddhist Dzogchen is
also touched upon, and in particular, the lineage of the Zhang Zhung
Nyengyud is discussed in detail alongside a unique and verified lineage
tree diagram drawn up with the help of Yongdzin Rinpoche himself, Khenpo
Tenpa Yungdrung and Geshe Namdak Nyima. This readily understood diagram
enables readers to see how the teachings of this unbroken lineage have
come down to us through the ages.
This book, Masters of the Zhang Zhung Nyengyud,
is a rare treasure, both for those new to Dzogchen and to experienced
practitioners alike, because Yongdzin Rinpoche's lively translation and
comments put these teachings in the context of our modern times, helping
students to integrate this ancient wisdom with their daily lives. As
the living spiritual descendent of these Dzogchen Masters, Lopn Tenzin
Namdak Rinpoche carries the live current of this ancient transmission,
delivering these pith instructions directly to the reader in a powerful
and accessible way.
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Oral Tradition From Zhang-Zhung
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An Introduction to the Bonpo Dzogchen Teachings of the Oral Tradition of Zhang Zhung known as the Zhang-zhung snyan rgyud..
The original Dzogchen teachings are found equally in the old, unreformed Tibetan schools of the Buddhist Nyingmapas and the pre- Buddhist Bonpos. These teachings are substantially the same in both schools in terms of meaning, terminology, and practice, both traditions justly claiming unbroken lineages of transmission coming down to the present day from the 8th century, and even before. Moreover, both schools assert that Dzogchen did not originate in Tibet itself, or even in India, but in Central Asia, variously known as Tazik and Uddiyana. From there it was brought to India and Central Tibet by certain Mahasiddhas, or great adepts, where it represented an Upadesha, or secret oral instruction, concerning an unconditioned state of being and awareness beyond the Tantric process of transformation. This refers to the Natural State of the Nature of Mind, one's own innate Buddha-nature, that is beyond all time, conditioning, and causality. In both traditions, the Nyingmapa and the Bonpo, Dzogchen is regarded as the ultimate teaching of the Buddhas of the three times and it is classified as the ninth or highest vehicle to enlightenment.
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Practice of Dzogchen in the Zhang-Zhung Tradition of Tibet: Translations from the The Gyalwa Chaktri of Druchen Gyalwa Yungdrung, and The Seven-fold Cycle of the Clear Light
By:John Myrdhin Reynolds (translator)
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Practice of Dzogchen in the Zhang-Zhung Tradition of Tibet, containing translations from the Bonpo Dzogchen practice manual for the Zhang-zhung Nyan-gyud, known as the Gyalwa Chaktri of Druchen Yungdrung, and from the Odsal Dunkor, The Sevenfold Cycle of the Clear Light, being the Dark Retreat practice from the same tradition, translated with commentaries and notes by John Myrdhin Reynolds The translations presented here, made by a noted Tibetologist and scholar-practitioner, all relate to the actual practice of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, according to the ancient Bonpo tradition of Tibet known as the Zhang-zhung Nyan-gyud, The Oral Transmission from Zhang-zhung. The country of Zhang-zhung was once a powerful kingdom that lay in what is now Western and Northern Tibet, centering around Gangchen Tise, the famous Mount Kailas. As a written tradition, these teachings and practices are said to go back to at least the 8th century of our era, coming from the enlightened Bonpo master Tapihritsa and transmitted to his disciple Gyerpung Nangzher Lodpo at the Darok lake in Northern Tibet. The master Tapihritsa gave his disciple permission to set down in writing these precepts of Dzogchen in the Zhang-zhung language for the first time. Then in the 10th century, these same precepts were translated into the Tibetan language by Ponchen Tsanpo for the benefi t of his Tibetan disciples. In the late 11th century, these precepts were collected from various sources in Western Tibet and in Nepal and put into their present form by Orgom Kundul and Yangton Sherab Gyaltsan of Dolpo. Thus, never having been concealed due persecution, this
transmission represents a continuous and uninterrupted lineage from there early times until the present. In the 13th century, the illustrious Bonpo master and abbot of Yeru Wensakha monastery in Tibet, Druchen Gyalwa Yungdrung (1242-1290), composed a practice manual for the this tradition. Book One deals with the preliminary practices of this Dzogchen system and the translation this text was published earlier. Included in the present volume are the translations from Book Two that principally deal with the practices of contemplation and
vision, otherwise known as Trekchod and Thodgal, as well as translations from Book Three of the four supplementary texts dealing with the view, meditation, conduct, and fruit of Dzogchen. Also included in this volume is a translation of the instructions for making the forty nine day dark retreat according to the Zhang-zhung tradition, the text known as The Seven-fold Cycle of the Clear Light. These translations were done over a period of time under the guidance and instruction of Yongdzin Rinpoche, Lopon Tenzing Namdak, the greatest living master and native scholar of Dzogchen in the Bonpo tradition. While detailed explanations of the various practices must be had from a qualified Lama belonging to the tradition, this volume provides a useful overview of the practices on the path of Dzogchen for those who are sincerely interested in these matters.
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Dawn of Awareness: The Practice Manual for the Preliminaries of Dzogchen
By: Jean-Luc Achard
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In this book the teachings concerned with the Special Preliminaries of Dzogchen will be given according to the method of guidance instructions which in it's entire form - dealing with the main practice and concluding practices.- actually embraces the two other approaches of the method of direct confrontations ( ngyo sproud icyi lugs) and the method of guiding an erring host to a safer place ( mgron po la brgal ba la tshangs sprugs du gdab pa).
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Four Lamps: From the Oral Transmission of the Great Perfection in Zhangzhung
By: Jean-Luc Achard
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The full title of the text presented in this volume is The Four Lamps of the Arising Mode ('char tshui sgron ma bzhi) referring to the arising mode of the visions of the natural state explained according to four mometnts or Lamps. The notion of Lamps is to be understood here in a particular way, as a clarification associated with a specific theme or idea. The visions of the natural state are collectively known as "the three manifestations" which are displays of sounds ( sgra), lights ( od) and rarys ( zer). The manifestations which arise in this unceasing mode are defined as the natural expression or the dynamism of the non dual emptiness and Clarity of the Base. They are explained here according to the four modalities: 1. their spontaneous abiding on the Base of the natural state, 2. their arising due to temporary causes or circumstances 3. their arising during the practice of the Path, and 4. their arising at the time of the Bardo.-
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Precepts in Eight Chapters: From the Oral Transmission of the Great Perfection in Zhangzhung
By: Jean-Luc Achard
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In this book the teachings concerned with the Special Preliminaries of Dzogchen will be given according to the method of guidance instructions which in it's entire form - dealing with the main practice and concluding practices.- actually embraces the two other approaches of the method of direct confrontations ( ngyo sproud icyi lugs) and the method of guiding an erring host to a safer place ( mgron po la brgal ba la tshangs sprugs du gdab pa).
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Meditation on Clear Light: From the Oral Transmission of the Great Perfection in Zhang Zhung
By: Lopon Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche
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In this book the teachings concerned with the Special Preliminaries of Dzogchen will be given according to the method of guidance instructions which in it's entire form - dealing with the main practice and concluding practices.- actually embraces the two other approaches of the method of direct confrontations ( ngyo sproud icyi lugs) and the method of guiding an erring host to a safer place ( mgron po la brgal ba la tshangs sprugs du gdab pa).
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Main Dzogchen Practices: From the Oral Transmission of the Great Perfection in Zhang Zhung
By: Lopon Tenzin Namdak
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The first part of the text focuses on the direct introduction to the mind and the calm abiding with the well-known methods of fixation on the white A and the special Dzogchen preliminary practices of Rushen for searching the mind. The essential point of investigation includes the fixation on the white A and the Rushen, as well as the study of texts and teachings on the Dzogchen view. Thus it is not only a reflection on the mind and the nature of mind, but rather than following our thoughts and our consciousness we trace them back to their origin and discover their nature which is empty. Yet, at the same time, it is perfected with all qualities and manifestations. These aspects are explained as empty and appearing as vision in the practice of Trekcho and Thogal. For discovering this natural state beyond thoughts, mind, and consciousness, we need to discover our inherent presence or self-awareness. Self-awareness of the natural state of the fundamental basis of all is introduced in the first part of the text while the second part concentrates on the stability of this nature in our experiences through the practice of abiding. The special method used here is the practice of the dark retreat to reach the ultimate state of calm abiding.
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Experiential Transmission Drugyalwa Yungdrung, Volume Three
By: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
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The first part of the text focuses on the direct introduction to the mind and the calm abiding with the well-known methods of fixation on the white A and the special Dzogchen preliminary practices of Rushen for searching the mind. The essential point of investigation includes the fixation on the white A and the Rushen, as well as the study of texts and teachings on the Dzogchen view. Thus it is not only a reflection on the mind and the nature of mind, but rather than following our thoughts and our consciousness we trace them back to their origin and discover their nature which is empty. Yet, at the same time, it is perfected with all qualities and manifestations. These aspects are explained as empty and appearing as vision in the practice of Trekcho and Thogal. For discovering this natural state beyond thoughts, mind, and consciousness, we need to discover our inherent presence or self-awareness. Self-awareness of the natural state of the fundamental basis of all is introduced in the first part of the text while the second part concentrates on the stability of this nature in our experiences through the practice of abiding. The special method used here is the practice of the dark retreat to reach the ultimate state of calm abiding.
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Experiential Transmission Drugyalwa Yungdrung, Volume Two
By: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
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The first part of the text focuses on the direct introduction to the mind and the calm abiding with the well-known methods of fixation on the white A and the special Dzogchen preliminary practices of Rushen for searching the mind. The essential point of investigation includes the fixation on the white A and the Rushen, as well as the study of texts and teachings on the Dzogchen view. Thus it is not only a reflection on the mind and the nature of mind, but rather than following our thoughts and our consciousness we trace them back to their origin and discover their nature which is empty. Yet, at the same time, it is perfected with all qualities and manifestations. These aspects are explained as empty and appearing as vision in the practice of Trekcho and Thogal. For discovering this natural state beyond thoughts, mind, and consciousness, we need to discover our inherent presence or self-awareness. Self-awareness of the natural state of the fundamental basis of all is introduced in the first part of the text while the second part concentrates on the stability of this nature in our experiences through the practice of abiding. The special method used here is the practice of the dark retreat to reach the ultimate state of calm abiding.
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Nine Ways of Bon: Excerpts from gZi-brjid
By: Snellgrove
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To practising bonpos, Bon simply means the true religion of Tibet, while to Tibetan Buddhists, Bon refers to the false teachings and practices that were prevalent before Buddhism finally succeeded in gaining a firm hold on the country.
The present study resulted from a period during which the author, a renowned scholar of Asian languages and cultures, was engaged in intense contact with practicing bonpos. It consists of the translation of fundamental texts of Bon, based on a manuscript of some 400 years of age, in which the entire Bon tantric practice is summarized. In many ways remarkably parallel to the early Buddhist teachings, much of the Bon tradition was subsequently incorporated back into Buddhism when that religion was formally adopted into Tibetan culture.
This important study, first published in the 1960s and long out of print, will be welcomed by all with interest in the religions of the Himalayas.
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Two Truths in Bon
By: Seiji Kumagai
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Nowadays there are two principal philosophical traditions followed by Tibetan Lamas. The first is found among the Sarmapas, or Newer Schools, which employ the Prasangika Madhyamaka view of Chandrakirti, not only in explicating the real meaning of the Sutra system but also in their interpretation of the Tantras. The second is found among the two Older Schools, the Nyingmapa and the Bonpo, which emphasize the Dzogchen point of view in elucidating their understanding of the Higher Tantras. Among the Older Schools, Dzogchen, “the Great Perfection”, which lies beyond the process of Tantric transformation, is regarded as the quintessential teaching of the Buddha, pointing directly to the Nature of Mind and its intrinsic awareness, known as Rigpa.
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Bo Bon: Ancient Shamanic Traditions of Siberia and Tibet in Their Relation to the Teachings of a Central Asian Buddha
By: Dmitry Ermakov
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Hailed as a fascinating and unique book, this is the first in-depth study of its kind comparing the ancient Bön religion with the Siberian shamanic tradition of Lake Baikal. Combining scholarly research with spiritual insight and with over 200 illustrations, maps and diagrams, the information is presented in a clear and lively way, enabling the reader to navigate easily through the various topics dealt with and to follow the threads of the intricate tapestry which is woven as the parallels between the ancient shamanic traditions of Tibet and Siberia unfold.
However, it goes much further than usual research in comparative religion can; while it stands up to academic scrutiny, it is written from the perspective of ‘an insider’ and the author draws on his many years of experience in both Yungdrung Bön and the Bө Murgel tradition of Buryatia to bring this subject to life and help us unlock some hidden aspects of both belief systems.
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Ani-La: The Nuns from Redna Menling
By:J. van de Belt
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The Bon religion is often seen as a part of Tibetan Buddhism but its bond is actually far more complex and has its own origin in the history of Tibet. The role of women worshipping in Bon and in Tibetan Buddhism is quite different. And although there are studies on Buddhist nuns, there is hardly any research available on nuns in the Bon tradition. This pioneering study vividly portrays the nuns of the Redna Menling monastery in Dolanji (India), the headquarters of the Bon religion, in exile. It focuses on the developments of the Bon in exile, the specific context in which Bon nuns live and how the monastic tradition takes shape. It provides interesting insights into the monastic community in exile, the historic context of the Bon religion as well as the personal motives to become a nun.
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Bon, Tibet's Ancient Religion
By: Christoph Baumer
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Until well into the eighth century, Bon was the dominant religion and culture on the roof of the world; it is in essence the belief system of ancient Tibet. From the second half of the eighth century onward, B÷n was superseded by Buddhism, which had traveled north from India, and the two religions came to influence each other in both doctrine and ritual. In spite of the eventual dominance of Buddhism through its position as the state religion, however, a reformed Bon school has been able to assert itself down to the present.
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Sacred Landscape & Pilgrimage in Tibet, In Search of the Lost Kingdom of Bon
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Before Buddhism, there was Bon. This book is a fascinating journey, visually and spiritually, through western Tibet by a monk of the little-known Bön faith, who is searching for the lost, sacred Bon homeland of Zhangzhung.
Including a 60 min DVD of the Pilgrimage.
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Mandalas of the Bon Religion
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Bon is one of the pre-buddhist religions of Tibet and has its own importance. This is the first volume of Bon Studies Series. In this book, the renowned scholars of Bon Studies have made efforts to present the importance of Bon Mandalas. It contains 132 Mandalas with their names and descriptions in Tibetan as well as in Romanized Tibetan. Originally, these Mandalas were painted in accordance with the ritual text explaining the theory and practice of Mandala. The title of the text of each Mandala is given in the book as per given in the Bonpo Kangyur and Tengyur. The Tibetan introduction is written by Lopon Tenzin Namdak, who is a head of Tritan Norbutse Bonpo Monastery, Nepal. The Mandalas in this book are preserved in National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan in the name of "Tritan Norbutse Collection". It is hoped that Bon Studies Series will become the source material to accelerate further studies on this ancient religion of Tibet, which has not received the due attention of the scholars and academicians of the world so far.
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New Horizons in Bon Studies
Edited by: Samten Karmay, Yasuhiko Nagano
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Bon is one of the pre-Buddhist religions of Tibet. It has been defined in a variety of ways, but regardless of how we define it, we can properly say that its culture has penetrated Tibetan culture from ancient times to the present day. For our deeper understanding of Tibetan culture, Bon is thus indispensable.
This volume is a part of the results of the International Symposium entitled New Horizons in Bon Studies held in 1999 at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. The purpose of this symposium was to discuss the Bon related themes from all aspects, such as anthropology, folklore, Buddhist studies, religious studies, cosmology, philology and linguistics to establish interfaces among various disciplines and to construct a common groundwork for the Bon studies.
The edited fruits of the symposium are shown in this book, which are categorized as Bon and its relationship to Buddhism, rDzogs-chen, myths and rituals, social and anthropological approach to the Bonpo monasteries and their lay communities, and above all Bon in a more wider context. The linguistic studies on Zhangzhung and related Himalayan languages will separately appear as the next issue of this series.
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Survey of Bonpo Monasteries and Temples in Tibet and the Himalaya
By: Yasuhiko Nagano & Samten G. Karmay
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This book is an outcome of general Survey of Monasteries, Temples and Hermitages of the Bon religion, known as Yung drug Bon. It contains the result of the field work done by the team of scholars of National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka Japan headed by Dr. Yasuhiko Nagano & Dr. Samten G. Karmay. Such concrete & detailed description of the Bonpo Monasteries & people, based on extensive field work, has never before appeared since the beginning of Tibetology. The field survey of actual conditions of Bon Culture was conducted in TAR, Tibet areas in China, India & Nepal. The four scholars who surveyed the monasteries temples and hermitage reached at the conclusion that the Monastic System in the Bon tradition goes back upto the eleventh century, when the Buddhists began to re-establish their monasteries. This publication will prove to e significant milestone for future studies of Tibetan Culture.
Survey of Bonpo Monasteries and Temples in Tibet and the Himalaya, Yasuhiko Nagano & Samten G. Karmay, Hardcover, 2008, 883 Pages, $120.00
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Unearthing Bon Treasures: Life and Contested Legacy of a Tibetan Scripture Revealer, With a General Bibliography of Bon
By: Dan Martin
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New Bon promises to become an important focus of interest among academic Tibetologists in the coming years. This unique, first-ever English-language volume on Tibet’s New Bon religion (14th century onwards) contains the full catalogue of the collected rediscovered teachings revealed by bDe chen gling pa, an important Bon po master of the second part of the 19th century in Eastern Tibet. Belonging to a later period of development within the various lineages of New Bon, bDe chen gling stands as an essential link between this tradition and that of the Ris med movement of the late 19th century.
The annotated catalogue of the thirteen volume collection mostly covers tantric and rDzogs chen (Great Perfection) texts barely known outside native libraries.
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Bon Po Hidden Treasures, A Catalogue of gTer ston bDe chen gling pa's Collected Revelations
By: Jean-Luc Achard
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New Bon promises to become an important focus of interest among academic Tibetologists in the coming years. This unique, first-ever English-language volume on Tibet’s New Bon religion (14th century onwards) contains the full catalogue of the collected rediscovered teachings revealed by bDe chen gling pa, an important Bon po master of the second part of the 19th century in Eastern Tibet. Belonging to a later period of development within the various lineages of New Bon, bDe chen gling stands as an essential link between this tradition and that of the Ris med movement of the late 19th century.
The annotated catalogue of the thirteen volume collection mostly covers tantric and rDzogs chen (Great Perfection) texts barely known outside native libraries.
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Spirit-mediums, Sacred Mountains and Related Bon Textual Traditions in Upper Tibet
By: John Vincent Bellezza
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This book uniquely provides first-hand insights into the spirit-mediums of Upper Tibet, the men and women who channel the gods. John Vincent Bellezza here for the first time presents the conclusions of his extensive research in the region itself, shedding light on the historical context, the tradition, characteristics, ceremonies, and paraphernalia of the phenomenon.
With extensive interviews with spirit-mediums, including interpretive material drawn from Tibetan texts; annotated translations of rituals devoted to the major deities of the spirit-mediums; and annotated translation of Bon literature relevant to the origins of spirit-mediums, and concluding with a chapter on Bon literary references to the ritual implements and practices.
A major source-book.
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