Bön 뵌교
Tibet's indigenous religion, today a school standing beside Tibetan Buddhism with its own founder, Tonpa Shenrab. It keeps rites for mountain and lake deities and the Dzogchen teaching of the mind's natural state.
OriginTibet (Zhang Zhung)
WhenPre-Buddhist roots; organised from the 11th c.
TextsBön Kangyur
A practice you can try today
Dzogchen meditation, circumambulating sacred mountains anticlockwise, prayer flags.
🕯 Pray in the Himalayan Cave Make your own caveSacred places
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