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Bön tradition of Shenlab Miwoche, the primordial teacher
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Bön tradition of Shenlab Miwoche, the primordial teacher

Pre-rebellion monotheistic high-god layer (UB 93:7, 94:0.1)
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Pre-rebellion monotheistic high-god layer (UB 93:7, 94:0.1)

Pre-rebellion monotheistic high-god layer (UB 93:7, 94:0.1) = Bön tradition of Shenlab Miwoche, the primordial teacher

Informed SpeculationModerate evidenceTibetan / Himalayan

The Connection

Bön is the pre-Buddhist religious tradition of Tibet. Its Yungdrung Bön lineage traces itself to Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche, a primordial enlightened teacher who predates Buddha Shakyamuni and taught the original dharma. The pattern is the same one the UB identifies in China (proto-Taoist Salem transmission), India (Brahman preservation of older teaching), and Polynesia (the Io teaching): an older monotheistic or unity-oriented teaching beneath the surface polytheism, preserved by a specialist priestly lineage. The Andite passage through Tibet (UB 78:5.6, 79:1.1-8) gave Tibet direct exposure to the upstream Salem-Mesopotamian teaching stream.

UB Citation

UB 78:5.6, 79:1.1-8, 93:7

Academic Source

Snellgrove, The Nine Ways of Bon (1967); Kvaerne, The Bon Religion of Tibet (1995)

Historical Evidence(Moderate evidence)

David Snellgrove's The Nine Ways of Bon documented the Bön canonical structure, with Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche as a pre-Buddhist enlightened teacher figure. Per Kvaerne's The Bon Religion of Tibet demonstrates that while modern Yungdrung Bön has been heavily Buddhized, it preserves distinctive non-Buddhist elements (sky-burial origins, sacred-mountain cosmology, specific cosmic-egg creation narratives) that appear to represent genuinely older strata. The UB's specific detail that Andite blood mixed extensively with Tibetan populations (79:1.8) provides a vector for upstream teaching to have entered the Tibetan substrate.

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