Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche

Etymology

Shenrab's life according to Bon traditions

The Four Portals and the Fifth, the Treasury

• White Water relates esoteric matters;
• Black Water concerns narratives, magic, funeral rites and ransom rituals;
• Land of Phan codifies monastic rules and philosophical expositions;
• Divine Guide enshrines the Dzogchen teachings; and finally
• Treasury which serves as an anthology of the salient items of the Four Portals.

  The Nine Ways of Bon

• Way of Prediction codifies ritual, prognostication, sortilege and astrology;
• Way of the Visual World details the psychophysical Universe;
• Way of Illusion explains the rites for the dispersal of adverse tulpas, entities and energies;
• Way of Existence details funeral and death rituals;
• Way of a Lay Follower contains the ten principles for wholesome activity;
• Way of a Monk codifies monastic rules and regulations;
• Way of Primordial Sound charts the integration of an exalted practitioner into the mandala of highest enlightenment;
• Way of Primordial Shen, renders the guidelines for seeking a true tantric master and the commitments that bind a disciple to his tantric master; and finally,
• Way of Supreme Natural Condition, or The Way of Dzogchen.

• Causal Ways comprises the first four of the above;
• Resultant Ways includes the fifth through eighth; and
• Unsurpassable Way or the Way of Dzogchen is the ninth.

  The Bon Canon

Aspects of Shenrab Miwoche

Footnotes