Celebration of Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen’s Birthday
Ligmincha Texas Center
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
6:00 pm CST in person only
Geshe Denma will lead this celebration instead of our regular practice.
Celebrate the birthday of the second Buddha of Yungdrung Bön, Nyamme Sherap Gyaltsen (1356–1415), the first abbot and founder of Menri Monastery, the mother monastery of Bön in Tibet. Geshe Denma will lead us in a practice with a special prayer to Nyamme Sherap Gyaltsen. On this auspicious day, each person will light a candle and pray the short and long invocation of Nyamme Sherap Gyaltsen.
Nyamme Sherab Gyalsten was known as a great reformer and reinvigorated the Bönpo monastic tradition, causing many monasteries to flourish. Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen was also the first master to collect and hold all the transmissions and empowerments of all the Bön lineages. All of these transmissions have continued to be held by each of the successive Abbots of Menri, and over time, the Abbot of Menri came to be regarded as the head of the Bön religion.