Buddhist terms, most notably tathāgatagarbha and buddhadhātu, but also sugatagarbha, and buddhagarbha. Tathāgatagarbha can mean "the womb" or "embryo"...

The Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra is an influential and doctrinally striking Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture which treats of the existence of the "Tathāgatagarbha" (Buddha-Matrix...

The Tathāgatagarbha sūtras are a group of Mahayana sutras that present the concept of the "womb" or "embryo" (garbha) of the tathāgata, the buddha. Every...

monism in these tathagatagarbha references. Michael Zimmermann sees the notion of an unperishing and eternal self in the Tathagatagarbha Sutra. Zimmermann...

Zimmermann, in his study of the Tathagatagarbha Sutra, reveals that not only the Mahaparinirvana Sutra but also the Tathagatagarbha Sutra and the Lankavatara...

is one of the main early Mahāyāna Buddhist texts belonging to the Tathāgatagarbha sūtras that teaches the doctrines of Buddha-nature and "One Vehicle"...

The later schools of the Mahayana identify it with bodhicitta and tathagatagarbha. The luminosity of mind is of central importance in the philosophy...

meditation practice and Mahāyāna thought, especially Yogachara, the Tathāgatagarbha sūtras, the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, and the Huayan school, with their emphasis...

According to Lusthaus, the synthetic Yogācāra-tathāgatagarbha school accepted the definition of tathāgatagarbha (the buddha-womb, buddha-source, or "buddha-within")...

It refers to several related terms, most notably Tathāgatagarbha and Buddha-dhātu. Tathāgatagarbha means "the womb of the thus-gone" (c.f. enlightened...

The text also discusses the associated doctrine of buddha-nature (tathāgatagarbha) which is said to be a "hidden treasury" within all living beings that...

sūtra originated around 100 BCE. Brian Edward Brown, a specialist in Tathāgatagarbha doctrines, writes that it has been determined that the composition...

1st-millennium CE Buddhist texts develop the notion of Tathāgatagarbha or Buddha-nature. The Tathāgatagarbha doctrine, at its earliest, probably appeared about...

explanations of what is called "reality". Prior to the period of the Tathagatagarbha Sutras, Mahayana metaphysics had been dominated by teachings on emptiness...

was associated with the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, which propagates the tathagatagarbha-doctrine, and with the "Awakening of Faith". The Mahaparinirvana Sutra...

"transformation body". The Dhammakāya tradition of Thailand and the Tathāgatagarbha sūtras of the ancient Indian tradition view the dharmakāya as the ātman...

atta. According to Williams, this interpretation echoes the Mahayana tathāgatagarbha sutras. This position was criticized by Buddhadhasa Bhikkhu, who argued...

Sūtra (Taishō 120) is a Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture belonging to the Tathāgatagarbha class of sūtra, which teach that the Buddha is eternal, that the non-Self...

Purification (Visuddhimagga). Controversially, according to the Mahayana Tathāgatagarbha sutras, the unsullied essence of a being—the "true self", or Buddha-nature—can...

109. Shiro Matsumoto, Critiques of Tathagatagarbha Thought and Critical Buddhism "The Significance Of 'Tathagatagarbha' --". October 23, 2007. Archived...

Sūtra which is an important scriptural source for Indian Yogācāra and tathāgatagarbha thought. The Sanskrit source text is no longer extant. The sutra survives...

ālāyavijñāna is identical with the tathāgatagarbha, and is fundamentally pure. The equation of ālāyavijñāna and tathāgatagarbha was contested. It was seen as...

"Tathagata-womb" (tathāgatagarbha). Buddha-nature is a concept found in some 1st-millennium CE Buddhist texts, such as the Tathāgatagarbha sūtras. According...

of a syncretic tradition of Yogācāra-tathāgatagarbha thought. This group adopted the doctrine of tathāgatagarbha (the buddha-womb, buddha-source, or "buddha-within")...

the Dharmakaya: Lord, the Tathagatagarbha is neither self nor sentient being, nor soul, nor personality. The Tathagatagarbha is not the domain of beings...

jing 大雲經, Tibetan: Sprin chen po'i mdo) is a Mahayana sutra of the tathāgatagarbha type. The sutra shares similarities with the Nirvana sutra, and teaches...

synthesized Yogācāra with the tathāgatagarbha thought found in various Mahayana sutras. This synthesis merged the tathāgatagarbha teaching with the doctrine...

Theorie du Tathagatagarbha et du Gotra. Paris: Ecole d'Extreme Orient, 1969, p. 35. Hookham, S. K. (1991). The Buddha within: Tathagatagarbha doctrine according...

4th century AD. Some scholars also note that the compilers of the Tathāgatagarbha texts constitute a third "school" of Indian Mahāyāna. This movement...

a Mahayana Buddhist sutra of the tathāgatagarbha type. The Mahābherisūtra focuses on buddha-nature (tathāgatagarbha), describing it as luminous, pure...