Jonang Dharma

We are a group of volunteers

• We are a group of volunteers, who after discovering the astonishing treasure of Jonang Dharma, have decided to dedicate our time and effort in making Jonang Dharma known to more people.

Jonang Dharma is important for its precious “eight-consciousnesses” teachings

• Jonang is an important sect in Tibetan Buddhism, but its monks and temples were killed and confiscated in the mid-17th century, and its literature was banned and destroyed at the same time. Some Jonang literature, in the form of broken wood blocks and handwritten folios, was excavated and brought to the western world in the 1990’s, and its rich teachings were discovered. Through a series of effort, the blocks and folios were scanned, but most of them remains pictures. We at this website work on collecting the scanned files, organizing them in a systematic manner, and making the scanned pictures available in the text format in order to facilitate searching, copying and pasting. We do this to provide free service to anyone who is interested in Jonang Dharma. Anyone can download any file on this site for free.

We provide free download of Dolpopa’s, Tāranātha’s and Maitreya’s works

• Besides organizing, digitizing and translating the works of the two Jonang patriarchs–Dolpopa & Tāranātha–we also work on clarifying Maitreya’s Five Treatises, because the Jonang Dharma literature often cites these five treatises, but their English and Chinese translations contain some critical misinterpretations. Therefore, in order to properly understand the Jonang Dharma and explain the critical points, we will provide each treatise’s parallel comparisons of Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, English and other languages.

We use OCR and human typing to make text files

• OCR technology by its nature is not 100% accurate, and our subsequent correction by human eyes may contain errors despite our best effort and intention. If you would like to point out errors to us, or provide any suggestion, please contact us. Thank you.