
This page is for posts, articles and translations about Jetsun Tāranātha (1575-1634), one of the most amazing and accomplished Tibetan Buddhist masters of the Jonang, Shangpa Kagyu and Rime traditions. Revered by great masters of all the major lineages, such as 19th Century Rime founders, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Jamgon Kongtrul the Great, he was an accomplished scholar, translator and practitioner. Tāranātha’s works on Kālacakra are still widely used today within the Jonang tradition and practitioners of Dro Kālacakra. As I discovered when translating some of these texts, Jamgon Kongtrul copied his Kālacakra texts word for word in his Treasuries! For more on his lifestory, see his online bio by Dr. Cyrus Stearns at Treasury of Lives.
Texts and Translations

A Hundred Blazing Lights: Supplementary Commentary on ‘Meaningful to See’ by Jetsun Tāranātha
Innate Kālacakra: Instruction Texts and Recitations by Jetsun Tāranātha and Bamda Gelek Gyamtso
‘Meaningful to See: Guidance on the Profound Path of the Vajra-Yogas‘ by Jetsun Tāranātha
Tāranātha’s Commentary on the Heart Sutra
Supplication to the Kālacakra Lineage by Jetsun Tāranātha
‘The Explicit and Hidden Aspects of Tāra: A Commentary on the Twenty-One Tāras‘ by Jetsun Tāranātha
Posts
MOTHER OF ALL THE BUDDHAS: PRAJNAPARAMITA AND THE ULTIMATE VIEW OF MIND AND REALITY
The meaning of ‘innate’ (lhan skyes) in generation stage Kālacakra
New Translation: Jetsun Tāranātha’s The Ornament of Madhyamaka Empty-of-Other
‘Love is the water of compassion’: Tāranātha on the ‘four immeasurables’ in A Hundred Blazing Lights
Public Lecture on Tāranātha‘s Commentary on Heart Sutra
Jetsun Tāranātha on the meaning of ‘three confidences’
Jetsun Tāranātha, Jonang, Shangpa Kagyu, Kalu Rinpoche and the White Hat Karmapa, Tsa Tsa Rinpoche
NECESSARY QUALITIES OF A VAJRAYANA MASTER by JETSUN TARANATHA in ‘A HUNDRED BLAZING LIGHTS’
Today the Parinirvana of Jonang master, Jetsun Taranatha (1575-1634)
Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Tāranātha and Nyingma lineage texts on Kālacakra
Teachings
Here is a recent short video teaching on Jetsun Taranatha by Jonang lama, Khentrul Rinpoche: