Birthday of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche

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Birthday of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche

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Tashi delek.

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January 20-21-2019 the celebration of the Birthday of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche, will take place at Triten Norbutse monastery and also at Shenten Dargye Ling.

The Limitless Aspirational Prayer to the Buddhas (Dersheg Monlam Thaye) will be performed on the 20th of January.

It is recommended to observe 24-hour Nyungne vows (consisting mainly in fasting and keeping silence) on the January 21st until the following morning.

The celebration of the birthday of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche, founder of the precious Bön tradition, is one of the most important ceremonies around the Tibetan New Year.

Blessings are multiplied manifold during such holy occasions.
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Re: Birthday of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche

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Tashi delek,

Raven Cypres Wood, a devoted Bönpo, gives here a nice explanation, regarding the birthday of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche. :anjali:

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By: R.C.W.



The 15th day of the 12th lunar month, January 21, 2019 on the Western calendar is the 18,036th birth anniversary of the founder of the Yungdrung Bön tradition, the Enlightened Lord Tönpa Shenrap Miwo Künlé Nampar Gyalwa. Already an enlightened being, Lord Tönpa Shenrap Miwoche chose to be born into this world in order to guide beings from suffering to liberation. He was born into the royal Mu lineage in the kingdom of Tazig Olmo Lungring.

Traditionally, the anniversary of his birth has been celebrated on the 15th day of the 1st month of the lunar calendar.

However, based upon research by the renowned Yungdrung Bön scholar and supreme lama, His Eminence Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, the actual date is believed to be the Full Moon day of the last month in the Tibetan lunar calendar. This is a powerful and auspicious day for performing virtue or spiritual practice. The benefits of these activities are greatly multiplied.

“King of Teachers, and the glorious guide through cyclic existence, you are the illuminating light that overcomes all darkness.

A primary medicine that removes the torment of the illness of ignorance, you are the king of the Mu clan, an extraordinary being who took human form.

With an army of immense fire that dries up the ocean and mire of the five poisons, you are a luminous holy man who possesses the special marks and characteristics.

Having undertaken a multitude of hardships, you completed a multitude of activities. Through both the four valid means of cognition and the six valid thoughts, and with great loving kindness, you liberate the migrating beings within cyclic existence.

I prostrate to the manifestation of wisdom, Tönpa Shenrap!”

This Praise and Homage for the Compassionate Teacher was composed by the great Lama Drenpa Namkha and is extracted from “The Definitive Meaning of the Lamp that Dispels the Darkness.”


Tibetan translation by: Raven Cypress Wood


See also here:
https://ravencypresswood.com/2019/01/19 ... tMh5xnym2M
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Re: Birthday of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche

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Tashi delek,

Tomorrow is the birthday of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche. :namaste:

Below a prayer to Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche in the Zhang Zhung Language, that Language which was spoken in the pre-Buddhist time of Tibet, mainly in the Zhang Zhung kingdoms and abroad due to trade.

Many Bön texts, are translated out of that Language into the Tibetan Language like we know it today.

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Tashi delek,

Buddha Tönpa Shenrap Miwoche Puja. 20/01/19 @ Triten Norbutse Monastery / Kathmandu :namaste:

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Re: Birthday of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche

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Tashi delek,

Today and tomorrow, Menri Monastery celebrates the 18,035th anniversary of the birth of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab, founder of Bön.

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