Tulku Shenchen Lüga

Shenchen Lüga was born in 996 CE, the Year of the Fire Monkey, in southern Tibet. In Bön history he is the most well-known among all the Bönpo “treasure revealers” in southern Tibet.

At the age of twenty-two, in 1017, in the midst of winter, he found the treasure of the Bön Scriptures, and was proud of his accomplishment. Later, he discovered two boxes buried deep into the earth containing a scripture written in both Zhang Zhung and Tibetan called “The Innermost Treasury of Existence”, Sidpai Dzogphug and also texts of Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen. During the reign of the King Dri Gum Tsanpo, at the time of the Bön persecution, these boxes had been hidden away.

Shenchen Lüga taught from 1025 until around 1038. He thus became one of the most important propagators spreading the Bön doctrine in Tibet. He belonged to the Shen clan, which is considered to descend from Buddha Tönpa Shenrab.