- "
Bonpos" (Wylie: bon po),
believe that the
religion originated in a
kingdom called Zhangzhung,
located around Mount Kailash in the Himalayas.
Bonpos hold...
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Bonpos claim that
Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche lived some 18,000
years ago, and
visited Tibet from the land of
Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring, or Shambhala.
Bonpos also...
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successor had not yet been appointed.
There was no
spiritual head of the
Bonpos at that time,
making it more
difficult to
contact the community. So through...
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River in 1718 to
support clear traditional trade routes. Many
Nyingmapa and
Bonpos were
executed and
Tibetans visiting Dzungar officials were
forced to stick...
- have
originated within the
religious tradition of Bon. In Bon,
shamanistic Bonpo used primary-colored
plain flags in Tibet.
Traditional prayer flags include...
- the 'Sauvastika' (Tibetan: yung-drung),
sacred to the
Bönpo. In the
Southern Hemisphere, the
Bönpo practitioner is
required to
elect whether the directionality...
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group of six. Svabhāva is very
important in the
nontheistic theology of the
Bonpo Great Perfection (Dzogchen)
tradition where it is part of a
technical language...
- (Wylie: gchang) is a
Tibetan ritual upturned flat
handbell emplo**** by
Bonpos and shamans.
Shang range in size from
approximately three to 20
inches in...
- of
Himalayas and is
revered in Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism,
Sufism and
Bonpo. In Uttarakhand, the
Himalayas are
regionally divided into the
Kumaon and...
- is made in a
clockwise direction by Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains,
while Bönpos cir****ambulate the
mountain in a
counterclockwise direction.
Pilgrims believe...
