BON SAMPRADAYA SHASTRA

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Department of Bon Sampradaya Shastra

Bon, also known as Yungdrung Bon is the indigenous religion of Tibet. Lord Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche was the founder of the religion and founded it around 18000 years ago. Bon is one of the significant religions in Tibet as well as in the surrounding Himalayan regions. Lord Tonpa Shenrab was born as the son of king Gyalbon Thodkar and queen Yochhi Gyalzhedma in royal family of Zhangzhung kingdom. In his early age he got married and had eight sons and two daughters. At the age of thirty-one he renounced the worldly life of royal inheritance and took monastic vows. Then he practiced Bon and asceticism to travel the path of enlightenment. Department of Bon Sampradaya has formed the syllabus based on the teachings of Tonpa Shenrab and its commentaries. The syllabus covers all the essences of teachings about the Nine Ways of Bon, which focus on sentient beings to liberate from suffering, to generate altruistic mind and to attain enlightenment.

Courses offered by the department are:

  1. UG – Shastri (BA)
  2. PG – Acharya (MA)

Course Outcomes:

  • U.G. Shastri (BA) in Bon Sampradaya Shastra:

Bon, also known as Yungdrung Bon is the indigenous religion of Tibet. Lord Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche was the founder of the religion and founded it around 18000 years ago. Bon is one of the significant religions in Tibet as well as in the surrounding Himalayan regions. Lord Tonpa Shenrab was born as the son of king Gyalbon Thodkar and queen Yochhi Gyalzhedma in royal family of Zhangzhung kingdom. In his early age he got married and had eight sons and two daughters. At the age of thirty-one he renounced the worldly life of royal inheritance and took monastic vows. Then he practiced Bon and asceticism to travel the path of enlightenment. Department of Bon Sampradaya has formed the syllabus based on the teachings of Tonpa Shenrab and its commentaries. The syllabus covers all the essences of teachings about the Nine Ways of Bon, which focus on sentient beings to liberate from suffering, to generate altruistic mind and to attain enlightenment. 

  • P.G. Acharya (MA) in Bon Sampradaya Shastra:
The knowledge of the progressive procedure of the cultivation of dhyanas, and generation of the celestial bodies of the abbot and deities provide a very value based education to the students enabling them to perceive the world with ethical binding. The philosophy of the great completion- the mahanishpatti, the identification of awareness with development of the perspectives of future, past and present applying complete neutrality with respect to their state is taught to them in a very critical way, developing the sensibility among the students to seek further research possibilities in the related fields. The knowledge of the introduction to tantra with respect to the generation stage of the deities proceeding towards the completion stage allows the students to see the unfolding of the mysteries of the whole world and its functionality in the scientific way. Having received training in such intensive philosophical domain, the students will seek opportunities in the fields of higher education and research, translation studies and teaching.
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