Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche

Tonpa Shenrab (Tibetan: སྟོན་པ་གཤེན་རབ་མི་བོ་།, Wylie: ston pa gshen rab mi bo, lit. 'Teacher Shenrab'), also known as Shenrab Miwo (Wylie: gshen rab mi bo), Shenrab Miwoche, Buddha Shenrab, Guru Shenrab, and by a number of other titles, is the legendary founder and reformer of the Bon religious tradition of Tibet. Bönpos usually add the honorific “Tonpa” (“founder” or “teacher”) before his name.

The story of Tonpa Shenrab was revealed in a fourteenth-century terma of Loden Nyingpo.

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