Menri Monastery in India will perform their annual ritual of One Hundred Thousand Offerings to the Queen of Existence, the Sipé Gyalmo Bum Tsok September 21st – 27th, 2026. This grand ritual is performed for the purpose of requesting the enlightened protector Sipé Gyalmo to remove obstacles and bestow her blessings for the preservation and prosperity of the precious Yungdrung religious religious tradition and all of its followers.

Additionally, prayers will be offered for the longevity, excellent health, and success for His Holiness the 34th Menri Trizin, His Eminence Menri Pönlop Yangtön Thrinley Nyima Rinpoche, and all revered rinpoches, lamas, and practitioners. This week of ritual offerings and prayers will be dedicated to the peace, harmony, and happiness of all beings.

Monks, nuns, and the children of the Bön Children’s Center will all participate in the preparation and execution of the week long ritual. One hundred thousand small food torma will be made and offered alongside one large torma, together with many other offerings of food, flowers, butter lamps, pure water, and sweet smelling incense. The merit of supporting or participating in this ritual removes obstacles, increases fortunate circumstances such as being protected from harm and being blessed with prosperity, good health, and harmonious circumstances.

Connect with the Ritual and Receive the Blessings

Making a connection to this sacred ritual by offering a financial donation of even a single dollar brings great benefit. Donations can be made directly to Menri Monastery or through Kyungdzong Wödsel Ling, the North American center for His Eminence Menri Pönlop Yangtön Thrinley Nyima Rinpoche. You can donate through their website here KWL Bum Tsok. In the memo field, indicate that the donation is for the bum tsok or Sipé Gyalmo ritual at Menri Monastery. The donate button is on the left side of the page. The donation can be dedicated for those who are ill, in danger, have recently passed away, for yourself, or for all sentient beings. The full amount of every donation will be sent to Menri Monastery and designated for the ritual.

It is possible to also connect with this sacred ritual by engaging in Sipé Gyalmo practice, mantra recitation, engaging in acts of virtue and avoiding acts of non-virtue during the time of the week-long ritual.

Sipé Gyalmo is an enlightened protector and also a yidam, or meditational deity. Her invocations and offerings are performed daily in Yungdrung Bön Monasteries and by practitioners worldwide.

“Within a burial ground ablaze with an eon-destroying fire, in the midst of swirling waves in an ocean of dark-colored blood, majestically sitting atop a black mule is the Queen of Existence, the single mother who brings migrating being to bliss.

Your body is the frightening color of dark-blue lapis lazuli. You have three faces and six arms. Your right face is white, your left face is red, and your face in the center is dark blue. Your blue-black hair billows upwards and the crown of your head is adorned with the perfect buddhas of the three times. Your nine overwhelming eyes blaze like an eon-destroying fire. Your six ears are perfectly curved like half-moons. The clicking sound of your tongues cause vow-breakers and evil forces to fall unconscious. The upper part of your body moves and is beautiful, and you wear a tiger skin as a skirt on the lower part of your body. You wear the ornaments of encircling, tamed snakes and a necklace of skulls.

Your first right hand raises a dark-colored victory banner. Your first left hand holds a mirror that illuminates the three realms of phenomenal existence. Your middle right hand lifts a sharp, sword of wisdom. Your middle left hand grasps an iron hook of method and compassion. Your final right hand holds a sharp phurba of fierce liberation. Your final left hand holds a human skull-cup filled with blood.

You use a poisonous black snake as a halter for your magnificent black mule and the three upper and lower straps of your saddle are turquoise snakes. Your mount wears a crown of silk ribbons at its ears and is adorned with a necklace of gold, silver, and turquoise Bönpo flat bells.”

“Having accomplished your practices in successive previous lifetimes, Mother Sipé Gyalmo, you lovingly protect me like a mother protects her very own child. Like the body and its shadow, you surround me with your love and affection. Single-pointedly, I supplicate to you from my heart!

Never separated from your loving compassion, protect me with your four kinds of peaceful, expansive, powerful, and wrathful activities! Please act so that whatever goal or intention that I wish for will be accomplished without any hindrance!”

— Sipe Gyalmo’s Entrusted Activity composed by Shardza Rinpoche. Translated by Raven Cypress Wood

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Aid for Nepal

Are you looking for a trustworthy organization that is collecting funds in order to support the survivors of the devastating flash flood in Nepal? His Eminence Menri Pönlop Yangtön Trinley Nyima Rinpoche has asked his North American organization, Khyungdzong Wödsel Ling, to collect donations that he will personally take to Nepal and hand deliver to those in need. If you would like to donate, you can do so by following this link: KWL Funds for Nepal. When making a donation, be sure to indicate that it is for Nepal in the memo field. The donate button is on the left side of the page.

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