The 8th lunar day of the 6th month is the anniversary of the parinirvana of the founder and first abbot of Menri Monastery, His Holiness Nyammé Sherap Gyaltsen Rinpoche. In 2023, this date coincides with July 26th. He was born in 1356 C.E. in the Gyalrong region of Tibet into the esteemed Dru family lineage. He passed into Nirvana in 1415 C.E. at the age of 60. He is also known as Lord Rinpoche or The Second Buddha. He is renowned for many reasons, including his ability to unite the lineage of sutric, tantric, and dzogchen transmissions into a single lineage that has now been transmitted directly through the lineage of Menri Monastery abbots reaching to the current 34th abbot of Menri Monastery, Khenchen Lungtok Dawa Dargyal Rinpoche. (For more information about Nyammé Sherap Gyaltsen Rinpoche, see previous article: https://ravencypresswood.com/2022/03/06/666th-birth-celebration-of-the-second-buddha-h-h-the-1st-menri-trizin-nyamme-sherap-gyaltsen-rinpoche/ )

Although H.H. Nyammé Sherap Gyaltsen Rinpoche spent time traveling, teaching, and performing his duties as abbot and leader of the Yungdrung Bön community, he was also able to complete an extensive collection of writings. These, along with the compositions of the 23rd Menri Trizin, Khenchen Nyima Tenzin, make up the bulk of the compositions allowed to be part of the Yungdrung Bön dialectic college.

Cycle of Supplication and Aspiration Prayers

• Praise of the Four Supreme Places of Refuge
• Offering and Praise to Mawé Sengé
• Supplication Prayer to the Mawé Sengé Lineage
• Praise of Venerable Essence of [the] Dru [Family Lineage]
• Eight Characteristics of Tséwang’s Eight Sacred Places
• Stages of Chanted Supplications
• Eight-branched Aspiration Prayer, A Ladder to Freedom
• Homage to the Charactristics of the Aural Transmission Shenraps
• The Gift of the Physical Body
• Condensed Peaceful Chö of Gifting the Body
• Command for the Gods and Demons                            

Cycle of Fumigation and Fulfillment

• Stages of Preliminary Practices for a Completely Pure Fumigation Offering
• A Small Collection Regarding the Medicine Deity Generation Stage
• Supplication and Requesting Consideration from the Marvelous Ones
• Invocation of the Practice Lineage
• Special Fulfillment
• A Completely Pure River of Requesting Consideration and Supplication
• Burnt Offerings of the Treasury of Precious Terma
• General Fulfillment from a Bundle of Precious Terma
• A Precious Mala of Fumigation Offerings
• Fumigation Offering to the Powerful Ones
• Fumigation Offering to Sigyal
• Fumigation Offering to Black Mule Sigyal from the Precious Terma
• Sigyal’s Manifested Realization
• Sigyal’s Threadcross Practice
• A Brief Paper on Sigyal’s Threadcross
• A Brief Paper on Black Mule Sigyal’s Feast Offering
• Short Fulfillment Practice of Black Mule Sigyal
• Practice of the Black Net Threadcross
• The Shining Lamp of Realization of the Red and Black Threadcross
• Commandments for the Avowed Guardians of the Teachings
• Important Points regarding the Fulfillment of Midü Jampa
• Fumigation Offering to Midü
• Offering and Fulfillment to Drak Tsen
• Fumigation Offering to Drak Tsen
• Invocation of Nyipangsé
• Command for Nyipangsé
• Command for the Queen of the Drala
• Gyalpo Sheltrap Torma Offering and Fulfillment
• A Brief Invocation of Sheltrap
• Praise in Appreciation of the Fumigation Offering
• Supplement to the Fumigation Offering
• Generation Stage for the Fulfillment Torma

Cycle of Supplementary Texts for the Practices of Accomplishment

• Destroying the Door to Negative Rebirths
• Realization of the Completely Pure Lotus of the Vast Expanse
• Mantric Accomplishment of Shenrap Nampar Gyalwa
• Fire Offerings of Nampar Gyalwa
• Realization of the Yungdrung Sutra of the Vast Expanse
• Going for Refuge according to the Vast Expanse
• Practice of Künzang’s Luminous AH
• Stages of Meditative Stabilization
• Text for Künzang’s Luminous AH
• Stages of Realization for Walsé
• Accomplishing the Essential Through the Realization of Walsé
• Purification and Increase of Torma
• Accomplishment of Sending Out and Gathering Back with Mantra Accumulation
• Practice of the Secret Mantra Lineage
• Realization of Black Garuda Walsé
• Clarifying the Realization of Black Garuda Walsé
• Expanding the Realization of the Amazing Trowo 
• Secret Quintessential Instructions for the General Practice of the Amazing Trowo
• Invitation, Homage, and Confession of Wrongdoing for the Reversal Practice of the Great Red Trowo
• Inviting the Wisdom Zema
• Aspiration Prayer for Threadcross Practice
• A Lamp that Clarifies the Meditative Focus of Secret, Greatly Wrathful Gekhö
• Supplication to the Gekhö Lineage
• Complete Supplication, A Rainshower of Blessings
• Practice of the Secret Wrathful Lineage
• The Irreversible Mantra of Gekhö, A Golden Razor
• Supplement to Presenting Offerings to the Gekhö Deities
• Realization of Walpur, Ornaments of Fire
• Fulfillment of the Walpur Lineage
• Outline for the Empowerment and Teachings of Walpur, A Rainshower of Blessings
• Empowerment and Teachings of Walpur, A Rainshower of Blessings
• Realization of Tséwang Tartuk
• Accomplishment of Tséwang Tartuk
• Fire Offerings to Tséwang
• Introduction for Empowerments
• Musical Notations for Festivals

Cycle of Science

• Tikles and Channels of Relics and the Physical Body of Those Gone to Bliss
• Clarification regarding the characteristics of colored powders, A Magical Mirror

Cycle of Authoritative Commentaries

• Analyzing the Characteristics of The Magical Lamp Text
• Analyzing the Characteristics of The Magical Lamp Autocommentary
• Clarification of the Limits of All Knowable Things
• Commentary Regarding the Sutric and Tantric Explanations of the Stages of the Vehicles
• Text of the Grounds and the Paths
• Autocommentary of Text of the grounds and the paths
• A Clear Lamp for the Path of Liberation
• Commentary Regarding the Clear Explanation of the Abridged Kham Gyé
• Commentary Regarding the Two Truths in the Middle Way, A Magical Lamp
• A Commentary of Clear Advice Regarding Monastic Discipline
• Commentary of Condensed Discipline
• Renewing Monastic Discipline
• Commentary Regarding Cosmology
• Clarifying Secret Points
• Detailed Analysis of the Secret Vows
• Hidden Commentary on the Mind of Enlightenment, Mandala of the Sun

* Although this list is extensive, it is not complete

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