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Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche is the 2,712th most popular religious figure (down from 2,704th in 2019). (up from 4,046th in 2019)

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Among religious figures, Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche ranks 2,712 out of 3,187Before him are Richard de Bury, Michael Levytsky, Polycrates of Ephesus, Kazim Rashti, Sebastian Koto Khoarai, and Joseph Othmar Rauscher. After him are Jacques Gaillot, Elizabeth Ann Seton, Sebastian Francis, Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, Ignatius Brianchaninov, and Euzois of Byzantium.

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