8 min
Interview
On His Native Dolpo
He talks about Dolpo in northern Nepal, the high valley he comes from and one of the last places where Bön has been practised without interruption.
About the teacher
Menri Lopön Trinley Nyima Rinpoche
Menri, refounded in 1967 at Dolanji in the Indian Himalaya after the original monastery in Tsang was destroyed, is the seat of Yungdrung Bön in exile and the place where its monks are examined for the Geshe degree. Two offices stand above the rest there. The Menri Trizin is the throne holder and heads the tradition. The Lopön is its head teacher, responsible for the doctrinal curriculum and for the dialectic school where monks work their way through the sutra, tantra and Dzogchen philosophical systems. After the throne holder, the Lopön is the senior teaching authority in Bön.
Trinley Nyima Rinpoche holds that office and teaches at Menri.
“All happiness depends on yourself. (source: https://kwling.org/new-years-message-from-menri-ponlob/, a first-person New Year's message from him)”Menri Lopön Trinley Nyima Rinpoche
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Talks & videos
Watch before you attend.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
94 min
Talk
The Open Heart
The Menri Lopön and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche together, on what opens a heart and what closes it.
60 min
Talk
The Power of Kindness
A teaching on kindness as the Bön tradition understands it, given at the Gyalshen Institute in California.
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