Greetings!
My name is Taras Merkotan, I am a yogi and translator of Tibetan Yundrung Bon tradition, taichi and chikung teacher, musician and writer, originating from Ukraine.

Here is my short esoteric biography.
I started to be engaged in internal practices in early nineties. In the year of 2000 I had completed my training as taichi and chikung teacher of international Inner Way School (now L'art du Chi).
Till 2004 I was teaching Inner Way taichi in offline group in my home city of Lviv.
In 2004 I started to study traditional Tibetan medicine and till 2009 I was successfully working as a masseur, healing my patients.
In 2005 I had entered Yundrung Bon tradition, in 2007 I started to translate its texts, in 2011 I was blessed by my lama for professional activity as a translator.
In 2012 I left city environment and till 2024 had lived secluded hermit life in remote village, dedicating my life to spiritual practice and translations.
The year 2025 became the year of paradigm change, I felt that hermit life period gave me everything it could and is not needed any more. During part of my life I was involved in healing, during another part in teaching, and yet another part of my life was dedicated solely to translations and going deep into theoretical understanding of Dharma. This year I came to understanding that all three processes are essential for me, so now I am changing my life so that all of them will be present in it.

During more then thirty years of practise and almost twenty years of translating I had accumulated tremendous amount of knowledge, some of it had already ripened and I feel the need to share it with the world.

I am following Tantra, the path of transformation, which is considered a quick path to liberation. It sounds very romantic, but in reality instead of developing gradually and steadily, as it happens in conventional religious systems, on my path I am cyclically passing through transformational crises, which eventually bring me to completely another level of existence. The cycle looks like this: several years of steady life, falling into abyss, climbing high vertical cliff, next plateau on another level. Then the cycle repeats. This is how quick path looks like in reality.
I already had five of such crises in my life and now I am able to look at them as at positive experiences, despite passing through them is very difficult and is always done on the very edge of my capabilities. The stake usually is very high, like life, health or sanity.
During these crises I usually practice much more then normally, often it is 24/7. In these times my practices are optimized and honed to their highest perfection.

Chikung is a practise system which supports the body, and my chikung practise is a valuable instrument which helps me to pass through my challenging times as a winner. Dancing Dragon Taiji-Chikung system was formed in this way. It is a result of merging of ample legacy of Taoist practices, received by me from several sources in Taoist tradition with deep theoretical understanding of principles of human being's energy system, obtained from my access to the root texts of Bon tradition.
Dancing Dragon Taiji-Chikung system showed very high level of effectiveness and I decided to share it with those who need it.
I am teaching it now in the form of one-to-one online coaching in the rhythm of one lesson per week. Soon this system will have a dedicated web-site, and for now if you would like to know more about it, you can check the "energy work" page here. If you would like to apply for the course, you can book a free consultation with me by writing me an e-mail to yundrung@protonmail.com

Regarding translations, when I started to practice Bon in 2005, there were almost no original texts available, and this was one of the reasons why I actually started to translate. Today, the situation is much better, but I have noticed that the methodological basis of the Tantra system which I am following is still practically untranslated and inaccessible to Western practitioners. I would like to create a systematic database of primary source texts that would illuminate step-by-step the path in the Tantra system, starting from the basics and ending with the deepest levels of inner tantras, so that Western practitioners would have a high-quality theoretical basis for their practice.
With this in mind I started Eternal Wisdom Tree Foundation, a project of making English versions of my translations and making them available to the world Bon sangha.
Many of these text will be free, some of them are already on this site in the "free e-texts" section, available for download.

You can greatly boost the creation of new free texts by making a donation. Detailed information about how to do it is available on "contacts" page of this web-site.

Regarding Tantra, I feel that with the time my approach to practice will form into something very condensed and effective, similar to Dancing Dragon Taiji-Chikung system, but to really teach Tantra, I must become a lama, what, I truly believe, will eventually happen.
For now I have permission from my Tibetan teachers to explain entrance level of the Teaching, but I am doing this only to my close friends, as this knowledge is very secret and shouldn't be passed openly.

That's all for now,
Enjoy the content of the web-site )

Sincerely,
T.