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	==Further reading==		==Further reading==
	* Tharanatha; Chattopadhyaya, Chimpa, Alaka, ~~trans~~. (2000). History of Buddhism in India, Motilal Books UK, {{ISBN\|8120806964}}.		* Tharanatha; Chattopadhyaya, Chimpa, Alaka, Published. (2000). History of Buddhism in India, Motilal Books UK, {{ISBN\|8120806964}}.
	* Tāranātha's Edelsteinmine, das Buch von den Vermittlern der sieben Inspirationen / aus dem Tibetischen übers. von Albert Grünwedel. - Petrograd: Imprimerie de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences, 1914 [https://archive.org/details/edelsteinminedas00tarauoft PDF]		* Tāranātha's Edelsteinmine, das Buch von den Vermittlern der sieben Inspirationen / aus dem Tibetischen übers. von Albert Grünwedel. - Petrograd: Imprimerie de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences, 1914 [https://archive.org/details/edelsteinminedas00tarauoft PDF]
	* Tāranātha's Geschichte des Buddhismus in Indien. Aus dem Tibetischen übersetzt von Anton Schiefner. St. Petersburg: Kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften 1869. XII. St. Petersburg 1869. [https://archive.org/details/taranathasgesch00schigoog PDF]		* Tāranātha's Geschichte des Buddhismus in Indien. Aus dem Tibetischen übersetzt von Anton Schiefner. St. Petersburg: Kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften 1869. XII. St. Petersburg 1869. [https://archive.org/details/taranathasgesch00schigoog PDF]

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[[File:Taranatha.jpg|thumb|Traditional thangka rendering of Taranatha]]
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'''Tāranātha''' (1575–1634) was a [[Lama]] of the [[Jonang]] school of [[Tibetan Buddhism]]. He is widely considered its most remarkable scholar and exponent.

Taranatha was born in [[Tibet]], supposedly on the birthday of [[Padmasambhava]]. His original name was Kun-dga'-snying-po, the Sanskrit equivalent of which is Anandagarbha. However, he adopted Taranatha, the Sanskrit name by which he was generally known, as an indication of the value he placed on his Sanskrit scholarship in an era when mastery of the language had become much less common in Tibet than it had once been. He was also paying homage to his Indian teacher, Buddhaguptanatha.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20090331115333/http://www.ordinarymind.net/may2003/feature2_03.htm Buddhaguptanatha and the Late Survival of the Siddha Tradition in India]," by David Templeman</ref>

His exceptional qualities are said to have been recognized by others at a young age, as is often the case with great masters. He studied under such masters as Je Draktopa, Yeshe Wangpo, Kunga Tashi and Jampa Lhundrup, although his primary teacher was Buddhaguptanatha.

Taranatha was recognized by Khenchen Lungrik Gyatso as the rebirth of Krishnacarya and the Khenchen's own teacher, Jetsun Kunga Drolchok.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia
| last = Stearns
| first = Cyrus
| title = Tāranātha
| encyclopedia = [[The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters]]
| access-date = 2013-08-10
| date = August 2008
| url = http://www.treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Taranata/2712
}}</ref>

==Works==
Taranatha was a prolific writer and a renowned scholar. His best known work is the 143-folio ''History of Buddhism in India'' (dpal dus kyi 'khor lo'i chos bskor gyi byung khungs nyer mkho) of 1608,<ref>[http://www.thdl.org/texts/reprints/bot/bot_05_03_notes.pdf Synopsis by Nalinaksha Dutt, Chap. I-XIII] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304030502/http://www.thdl.org/texts/reprints/bot/bot_05_03_notes.pdf |date=March 4, 2009 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.thdl.org/texts/reprints/bot/bot_06_01_notes.pdf Chap. XIV-XXVI] [[Nagarjuna]], [[Asanga]], [[Vasubandhu]], [[Dharmakirti]], [[Shantideva]] and Shri [[Harsha]] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304030506/http://www.thdl.org/texts/reprints/bot/bot_06_01_notes.pdf |date=March 4, 2009 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.thdl.org/texts/reprints/bot/bot_06_02_03.pdf Chap. XXVII-XLIV] Accounts of [[Pala Empire|Pala]], [[Sena dynasty|Sena]] kings, [[Vikramshila]], [[Turkic peoples|Turushka]]s and status of Buddhism in India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528063545/http://www.thdl.org/texts/reprints/bot/bot_06_02_03.pdf |date=May 28, 2008 }}</ref> which has been published in English. Other works are ''The Golden Rosary, Origins of the Tantra of the Bodhisattva Tara'' of 1604 which has also been translated into English. He was an advocate of the Shentong view of emptiness and wrote many texts and commentaries on this subject. English-language translation publications of his works on Shentong are ''The Essence of Other-Emptiness''<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Essence-Other-Emptiness-Taranatha/dp/1559392738 The Essence of Other-Emptiness] by Taranatha, translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins (Snow Lion, 2007) {{ISBN|1559392738}}</ref> (which includes a translation of his ''Twenty One Profound Meanings'' (Zab don gсer gcig pa)) and his ''Commentary on the Heart Sutra''.<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Taranatha-Commentary-Heart-Sutra-translation/dp/938702301X Taranatha's Commentary on the Heart Sutra] by Adele Tomlin (Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 2017) {{ISBN|938702301X}}</ref>
In 1614 Taranatha founded the important Jonangpa monastery Takten Dhamchöling, in the Tsangpo Valley about 200 miles west of [[Lhasa]].

== Later life ==
Probably not long after 1614, Taranatha went to [[Mongolia]], where he reportedly founded several monasteries. He died probably in [[Ulan Bator|Urga]]. His rebirth became known as [[Zanabazar]], the 1st Bogd Gegeen and [[Jebtsundamba Khutuktu]] of Mongolia. His most recent reincarnation was the [[9th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu]], who died in 2012.

==See also==
*[[Jonang]]
*[[Shentong]]
*[[Kalachakra]]
*[[Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen]]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==Sources==
* Taranatha (auth.), Hopkins, Jeffrey (trans). ''The Essence of Other-Emptiness'' Snow Lion(2007). {{ISBN|1-55939-273-8}}
*Stearns, Cyrus. ''The Buddha from Dolpo: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen''. State University of New York Press (1999). {{ISBN|0-7914-4191-1}} (hc); {{ISBN|0-7914-4192-X}} (pbk). -(contains fairly extensive information on Taranatha)

==Further reading==
* Tharanatha; Chattopadhyaya, Chimpa, Alaka, trans. (2000). History of Buddhism in India, Motilal Books UK, {{ISBN|8120806964}}.
* Tāranātha's Edelsteinmine, das Buch von den Vermittlern der sieben Inspirationen / aus dem Tibetischen übers. von Albert Grünwedel. - Petrograd: Imprimerie de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences, 1914 [https://archive.org/details/edelsteinminedas00tarauoft PDF]
* Tāranātha's Geschichte des Buddhismus in Indien. Aus dem Tibetischen übersetzt von Anton Schiefner. St. Petersburg: Kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften 1869. XII. St. Petersburg 1869. [https://archive.org/details/taranathasgesch00schigoog PDF]
* [https://jonangdharma.org/taranatha-and-dolpopas-complete/#T23V Tāranātha-‘Dzam-Thang-edition-complete-23-volumes]
* [https://jonangdharma.org/taranatha-and-dolpopas-complete/#T17V Tāranātha-Ladakh-edition-complete-17-volumes]
* [https://jonangdharma.org/taranatha-and-dolpopas-complete/#T45V Tāranātha-pe-cin-edition-complete-45-volumes]

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040206023714/http://www.zanabazar.mn/Life/zanabazar.11.html The Life of Zanabazar]
*[http://www.jonangfoundation.org/taranatha The Jonang Foundation on Taranatha]
*[https://jonangdharma.org/taranatha/ The Jonang Dharma on Taranatha]
*{{Cite encyclopedia
| last = Stearns
| first = Cyrus
| title = Tāranātha
| encyclopedia = [[The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters]]
| access-date = 2013-08-10
| date = August 2008
| url = http://www.treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Taranata/2712
}}

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