Bönpo Newsletter

Bönpo Newsletter — Newsletter of the International Bönpo Translation Committee (IBTC) བོན་པོའི་དུས་དེབ།

Except when explicitely mentionned, all editorials, articles and notes included in the Newsletter are Jean-Luc Achard's.

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 0 — June 2008

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Status of the International Bönpo Translation Committee

1. Article 1 — Aims
2. Article 2 — Modalities of the help provided
3. Article 3 — Languages covered
4. Article 4 — Joining the IBTC
5. Article 5 — Newsletter
6. Article 6 — Correspondence.

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 1 — April 2009

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1. Creation and Purpose of the IBTC
2. Recent Works (partially) reviewed by the IBTC (June 2007-June 2008)
3. The Dechen Ritrö Newsletter
4. Academic Papers dealing with Bön delivered during the CNRS Conferences in Paris
5. What of the previous Bön Translation Committees?
6. A New Reason for the creation of this Newsletter

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 2 — May 2009

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1. Editorial
2. Books reviewed by the IBTC
3. Questions from the readers (001-003)
4. The Bön of India (part I)

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 3 — June 2009

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1. Editorial
2. Recent Work reviewed by the IBTC
3. Questions from the readers (004-005)
4. On-Going Works on the Bönpo Canons
5. The Bön of India (part II)
6. Demystifying Bön & Sanskrit
7. Another question from a reader (006)

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 4 — Special Dzogchen Issue — July 2009

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1. Editorial
2. The Ultimate Clear-Light Teachings of Kuntuzangpo
3. The Epiphanic Arising of the Manifestations of the Base
4. The Extraordinary Simplicity of the Clear-Light Practice of the Path

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 5 — August 2009

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1. Editorial
2. New Book from the Senri Ethnological Reports
3. Questions from the readers (007-012)
4. Bönzhik Khyung-nak, The Black Garuda Hermit

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 6 — September 2009

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1. Editorial
2. Questions from the readers (013-022)

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 7 — November 2009

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1. A New Traditional Chronology of the Bönpo Tradition

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 8 — December 2009

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1. Editorial
2. Questions from the readers (023-027)
3. Forthcoming publication

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 9 — January 2010

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1. Editorial
2. Questions from the readers (028-033)
3. Senri Ethnological Reports
4. New Publication from the Khyung-Lung Editions
5. A Couple of Bön Yahoo Groups

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 10 — February 2010

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1. Editorial
2. Questions from the readers (034-041)

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 11 — June 2010

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1. Editorial
2. News — International Network for Bon Studies
3. Questiongs from the readers (042-049)
4. Books received

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 12 — August 2010

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1. Editorial
2. Origins of the Practice of Sipai Gyelmo
3. New Discovery of Bön Texts
4. Questions from the readers (050-053)

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 13 — September 2010

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1. Editorial
2. Questions from the readers (054-058)
3. Gomchen Barwa (11th-12th century)

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 14 — October 2010

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1. Editorial
2. Questions from the readers (059-061)
3. Contemporary masters of Dzogchen
4. Prayer of the Menri Abbot Phüntsok Lodrö to Shardza Rinpoche

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 15 — Special issue dedicated to Shardza Rinpoche’s Kusum Rangshar — November 2010

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1. Editorial
2. The Practice of the Path of Dzogchen as Expressed in Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen’s Practice Manual The Natural Arising of the Three Enlightened Bodies, by Kurt Keutzer
3. Guidance on the manner of practicing Dzogchen: The Natural Arising of the Three Enlightened Bodies by Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen, by Kurt Keutzer

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 16 — December 2010

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1. Editorial
2. Questions from the Readers (062-065)
3. Papers on Bön in the online Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines (RET)
4. Relics of Shardza Rinpoche

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 17 — January 2011

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1. Editorial
2. The symbolic meaning of the letter Ōm in Bön texts
3. A Brief Introduction to the Doxographical Schemes of Eternal Bön
4. Questions from the readers (066-068)

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 18 — Special issue dedicated to the Swift Rebirth of Ragshi Tsültrim Sangye Rinpoche — February 2011

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1. Editorial
2. The Life of Mengé Tsültrim Sangye Rinpoche, aka Amchi Gegen La
3. Preface to the Four Collections of Medicine Tantras, the Elixir of Medical Science (gSo rig bdud rtsi sman rgyud ‘bum bzhi), Delhi edition compiled by Tsültrim Sangye
4. A Prayer for the Swift Rebirth of Gegen La

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 19 — May 2011

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1. Editorial
2. Questions from the readers (069-071)
3. Bön Numerals — 2
4. Teachings of Yongdzin Rinpoche (1)
5. A Note on the Dzogchen Cycles in Bön

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 20 — August 2011

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1. Editorial
2. Questions from the readers (072-074)
3. Biographies of Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche
4. Biography of Yongdzin Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 21 — January 2012

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1. Editorial
2. Questions from the readers (075-077)
3. The A-khrid Instructions in Shardza Rinpoche’s tradition and the importance of gradual training
4. Yorpo Mepel’s A-khrid instructions, as transmitted to Patön Dütsi

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 22 — February 2012

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1. Editorial
2. Battling Censorship from Spiritually Blind Individuals
3. How to follow a spiritual master according to Shardza Rinpoche — Part I
4. Synthesis on how to follow a master

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 23 — August 2012

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1. Editorial
2. How to follow a spiritual master according to Shardza Rinpoche — Part II
3. The Wrong Motivation in Teaching According to Shardza Rinpoche

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 24 — August 2013

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1. Editorial
2. How to follow a spiritual master according to Shardza Rinpoche — Part III
3. The Two Aspects of the Universal Base
4. How to impart advanced Dzogchen Teachings

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 25 — November 2013

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1. Editorial
2. A General Advice to Western Practitioners regarding Correct Transmissions
3. A Short Biography of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoché — Part I —

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 26 — December 2013

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1. Editorial
2. A Short Biography of Gyawob Tenzin Wangyel Rinpoche
3. A Prayer for the Swift Return of Gyawob Rinpoche

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 27 — March 2014

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1. Editorial
2. A Short Biography of Drimé Künsel Rinpoche (1933-2013)
3. Prayer for Tokden Tse Tsampa
4. The Lineage of the Rigdzin Kusum Gongdü
5. Questions from the readers (078)

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 28 — June 2015

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1. Editorial
2. The notion of Suchness in the Dzogchen Drakpa Korsum Collection
3. The Fourfold Advice of the Experiential Transmission Regarding Correct Practice
4. How Liberation and Delusion arise from the Natural State according to the Experiential transmission

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 29 — A Special Issue on Nyagter Sang-ngak Lingpa — December 2015

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1. Editorial
2. The Revelation of Treasures (gter ma) in the Bönpo tradition — part I
3. A Short Biography of Sang-ngak Lingpa

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 30 — July 2016

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1. Editorial
2. Questions from the readers (079-093)

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 31 — August 2016

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1. Editorial
2. Questions from the readers (093-099)
3. Some Remarks on the Atri (A khrid) System of Meditation

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 32 — September 2017

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1. Editorial
2. The Abridged Biography of Nyamme Sherab Gyeltsen (1356–1415)
3. The Practice of Ordinary Preliminaries According to Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche
4. Questions from the readers (100-101)

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Bönpo Newsletter no. 33 — Biography of His Holiness Lungtok Tenpai Nyima Rinpoche (1927–2017) — October 2017

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1. Editorial
2. Biography of His Holiness Lungtok Tenpai Nyima Rinpoche (1927–2017)
3. A Brief History of Kyangtsang Monastery
4. Questions from the readers (102)

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Bönpo Newsletter # 34 — April 2018

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1. Editorial
2. A Short Biography of Dawa Dargyé, the 34th Menri Abbot
3. Teachings on Bardo according to the Tsalung Khandro Sangdzö
4. The notions of Wisdom and Single Thiglé in the Mother Tantras
5. Questions from the Readers (103)

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Jean-Luc Achard 4 avril 2018 à 16:40 (CEST)