On the 16th day of the sacred Saga Dawa month in the Tibetan Wood Snake year, June 12, 2025, at 7:45 AM, His Eminence Menri Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, master of the three lineages and spiritual elder of the Yungdrung Bön religious tradition, passed beyond this life and entered into a state of deep meditation, tukdam at his lama residence at Triten Norbutse Monastery. The one year anniversary of this sacred event coincides with June 1st, 2026. Disciples worldwide are honoring this sacred occasion through prayers, offerings, and engaging deeply in the practices they were given by this revered master. It is an especially auspicious time to accumulate the supplication prayer to His Eminence, make offerings and recite the Offerings to the Lama, perform guru yoga or any act of virtue or spiritual practice, especially as it was taught by His Eminence.
Supplication to the Lord of Refuge, Menri Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche
How marvelous! Teacher of the three trainings and protector of migrating beings, you are an emanation of the omniscient Nyiwang who perfects enlightened intention with dynamic energy. Having the total perfection of the abiding nature of sutra and trantra, you hold and protect the teachings through your completely pure enlightened activities. To Yongdzin Mawé Wangpo I supplicate!
Written by the supreme Lord of Refuge, the 33rd Menri Trizen Rinpoche on the 8th lunar day of the 3rd lunar month.
སྐྱབས་རྗེ་སྨན་རིའི་ཡོངས་འཛིན་སློབ་དཔོན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གི་གསོལ་འདེབས།
༄༅།། །ཨེ་མ་ཧོ། བསླབ་གསུམ་བསྟན་པའི་བདག་ཉིད་འགྲོ་བའི་མགོན། ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཉི་དབང་རྣམ་རོལ་དགོངས་རྩལ་རྫོགས། མདོ་སྡེ་སྔགས་ཀྱི་གནས་ལུགས་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེ། བསྟན་པ་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྣམ་པར་དག། །ཡོངས་འཛིན་སྨྲ་བའི་དབང་པོར་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས།། སྐྱབས་རྗེ་སྨན་རིའི་ཁྲི་འཛིན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༣་ཚེས་༨་ལ་བསྟོད་པའོ།།
é ma ho, lap sum ten pé dak nyi dro wé gön, kün khyen nyi wang nam röl gong tsal dzok, do dé ngak kyi né luk dzok pa ché, ten pa dzin kyong trin lé nam par dak, yong dzin ma wé wang por söl wa dep
Offerings to the Lama
Prostrations
How marvelous! To the lama who is the embodiment of all of the victors and spiritual masters, principally by Bön practitioners, but including all sentient beings who are as limitless as the sky; we offer prostrations with our body, prostrating with our arms, legs, and head! We prostrate with our speech, chanting with a joyous and inspired melody! We prostrate with our mind, prostrating with single-pointed motivation and devotion! May the negative actions and defilements of our three doors become purified! AH OM HUNG CHI PAR RAYNA KO PUNG AKSHO TRI TSE GU DÜN HRUN
Receiving the Accomplishments
You, my Lama, who has brought cyclic existence and nirvana under your power, I, and your other followers, pray: please bestow benefits that are as limitless as the sky to migrating beings! Please grant our wishes to be continuously without separation from your presence! Continuously hold us with your unequalled compassion, we pray!
Aspiration Prayer
Until I obtain complete enlightenment, not born in a negative place, may I obtain a body of renunciation with the advantages of the leisures and fortunes. Having practiced the three trainings and loosened the mind stream, and having traveled the paths and the grounds, from the state of complete buddhahood, may I accomplish benefit that is equal to the vastness of the sky!
Extracted from Completely Pure and Changeless Offerings to the Lama, an Ornament of Wish-Granting Jewels as published in A Blazing Mala of Wish-Fulfilling Jewels, A Compilation of Daily Prayers from the Yungdrung Bön Religious Tradition
“Because the root of happiness and suffering is our own mind, if you know that and are careful and watchful, it is the basis of happiness and well-being. Or if the mind is left on its own, it is the cause for an ocean of suffering and misery. In that way, if you know how to make a choice, you are the best kind of person.”
Heartdrop Advice of the Master, A Compilation of Advice Given by Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche
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