Bön’s Zhang Zhung Nyengyü and Contemporary Visionary Transmission

Record summary

Contemporary Bön institutions preserve and teach visionary, tantric, funerary, and treasure-revelation traditions such as the Zhang Zhung Nyengyü. These materials are useful for comparing revealed scripture, lineage authentication, ritual technologies, and the relationship between textual history and claims of visionary discovery. The lead concerns a living Tibetan religious tradition, not evidence that its cosmology is literally verified. Dating, translation, and attribution are often difficult because texts circulate through Tibetan editions, oral instruction, modern printings, and competing accounts of revelation.