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| | The Buddhist doctrine of «self» (from Theravada to Tathagatagarbha) |
 | | The Buddhist doctrine of «self» (from Theravada to Tathagatagarbha) | | | The theory of the Tathagatagarbha was the logical and natural result of the evolution of the Buddhist Mahayana thought. | | | The most remarkable event in the history of this doctrine is its exclusive prevalence in the Chinese and Far Eastern Buddhist schools where the Tathagatagarbha doctrine became the core of such schools as Tiantai, Huayan and Chan. |
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http://www.kheper.net/topics/Buddhism/doctrine_of_self.html
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| | Tathagatagarbha doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Tathagatagarbha is, according to the final sutric teaching of the Mahayana Nirvana Sutra, the hidden interior Buddhic Self (Atman), untouched by all impurity and grasping ego. | | | The Tathagatagarbha is indicated by the relevant sutras to be the ultimate, pure, ungraspable, irreducible, invulnerable, true and deathless Quintessence of the Buddha's liberating Reality, the very core of his highest being (Dharmakaya). | | | Three of the most important early texts for the introduction of this doctrine are the Tathagatagarbha Sutra, the Śrīmālā-sūtra and the Awakening of Faith; the "Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra" and the Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdesa sutra are also vital texts for a fuller understanding of "Tathagatagarbha" teaching. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tathagatagarbha_doctrine
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| | Theos-Talk Archives (June 1999 Message tt00076) |
| | Hookham http://www.sunypress.edu/backads/hookhambuddha.html Tathagatagarbha -- Buddha Nature -- is a central concept of Mahayana Buddhism crucial to all the living practice traditions of Tibetan and Zen Buddhism. | | | Cyrus has a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Washington in Seattle, and is the author of several articles on Buddhism. | | | In particular she does this with reference to the only surviving Indian commentary on the Tathagatagarbha doctrine, the Ratnagotravibhaga. |
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http://www.theosophy.com/theos-talk/199906/tt00076.html
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| | Graduate Student Fellows at the University of Toronto Humanities Centre |
| | The teaching of tathagatagarbha, or “the embryo of the Buddhas,” in Buddhist texts compiled after the third century CE, is no doubt an inspiration for all Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike with the confidence to seek the perfect enlightenment of the Buddhas. | | | The tathagatagarbha is in fact referring to a kind of awareness, sometimes described as the natural luminosity of mind, rather than an ontological substance, of which there would be no origination of illusory thoughts and ignorance. | | | This teaching therefore points us to the idea that we all possess the perfectly enlightened mind of the Buddhas, although this aspect of the enlightened mind is in its obscured form. |
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http://www.utoronto.ca/humanities-centre/fellows_gs.html
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| | Bodhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Similar doctrines are encountered in the Tathagatagarbha sutras, which tell of the immanent presence of the Buddhic Principle (Buddha-dhatu/ Buddha-nature) within all beings. | | | Here, the Tathagatagarbha (Buddha-Matrix) is tantamount to the indwelling transformative and liberational power of Bodhi, which bestows an infinitude of unifying vision. | | | "My uncreated and unending profound Enlightenment accords with the Tathagatagarbha, which is absolute Bodhi, and ensures my perfect insight into the Dharma realm [realm of Ultimate Truth], where the one is infinite and the infinite is one." |
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http://www.lexington-fayette.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Bodhi
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| | Brian Hafer’s Homepage - Deity Yoga |
| | Not all the schools of Buddhism accept the doctrine of tathagatagarbha. | | | This practice could clearly be interpreted in terms of the doctrine of tathagatagarbha as an awakening of one’s consciousness to perceive the Buddha nature which is present in every aspect of reality or to perceive the omnipresent and immanent mind of perfect purity of the early Dzogchen tradition. | | | In rejecting the tathagatagarbha doctrine, the Gelugpas may have believed it was aligned with the Subitists; however, it seems to be implied in the Tantric mandala visualizations of the Gelugpas themselves. |
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http://bhafer.home.comcast.net/deityyoga.html
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| | Tathagatagarbha - Buddha Nature |
| | Alternatively, you can put it the Tathagatagarbha way, and say that something drops away and the truth that was always there is revealed. | | | So I’m going to speak about this Buddha Nature which, in Buddhist tradition, is usually called Tathagatagarbha. Tathagata is a common word for Buddha; Garbha means either womb, or the embryo which grows in the womb. | | | The possibility of this kind of misunderstanding is why Buddhist scriptures warn against teaching the second Dharmachakra teaching of emptiness to those who aren't ready for it. Even though it is such a direct route to Enlightenment, it can be misunderstood as something negative. |
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http://www.kamalashila.co.uk/talks/Tathatagarbha.htm
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| | Lion's Roar of Queen Srimala |
| | The Tathagatagarbha excludes the realm with the characteristic of the constructed. | | | Lord, the Tathagatagarbha is the locus of this explanation of the meaning of the Noble Truths. | | | When anyone's mind reaches the ultimate purport of the Tathagatagarbha, the Dharmakaya of the Tathagata and inconceivable realm of the Buddha, he has implicit trust and the conviction in two kinds of explanation of the meaning of the Noble Truths. |
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http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~pgallahe/buddhism/srimala.html
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| | Snow Lion Publications: Snow Lion Newsletter: Is Buddhism Really Nontheistic? |
| | While the nontheism of Buddhism is often set in stark contrast to the polytheism of the Vedas, the tradition of Vedanta, meaning the "culmination of the Vedas," presents a cosmogony strikingly similar to the preceding Atiyoga account. | | | As the early Buddhist theory of the bhavanga was developed into the Mahayana theory of the tathagatagarbha, the realization of which now took on paramount importance in meditative practice, the precise manner in which the buddha-nature gives rise to the phenomena world was further developed in the Vajrayana tradition. | | | According to this cosmogony, the essential nature of the whole of samsara and nirvana is the absolute space of the tathagatagarbha, but this space is not to be confused with a mere absence of matter. |
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http://www.snowlionpub.com/pages/N49_2.php
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| | Articles - Tathagatagarbha Sutra |
| | The Tathagatagarbha Sutra is an influential and doctrinally striking Mahayana Buddhist scripture which treats of the existence of the "Tathagatagarbha" (Buddha-Matrix, Buddha-Embryo) within all sentient creatures. | | | The ultimacy of the tathagatagarbha doctrine (from the Mahayana standpoint) as articulated by the sutra is indicated by the exalted nature of the audience to whom it is delivered - an audience which includes Manjusri (embodiment of supreme Wisdom), Avalokitesvara (the manifestation of highest Compassion), and the future Buddha, Maitreya (personification of limitless Loving-kindness). | | | The Buddha of this scripture urges faith in its teachings on the part of its auditors and insists that the upholding of this sutra will turn the faithful follower into a "Dharma King", a Buddha like himself. |
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http://gaple.com/articles/Tathagatagarbha_Sutra?mySession=521bfb1e737b167f...
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| | Nirvana Sutra :: Appreciation of the "Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra" |
| | The Mahaparinirvana Sutra is a key sutra for an understanding of the Buddha's teachings on the Buddha-dhatu ("Buddha Nature", "Buddha Principle") and the synonymous "Tathagatagarbha" (innermost Buddhic core of each being). | | | This website is devoted to an appreciation of this unique scripture - both for those who wish to study the background of the text from a scholarly point of view, but more particularly for those who wish to practise the teachings of the Mahaparinirvana Sutra from a basis of faith and meditative experience. | | | The Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra ("Great, Complete Nirvana Mahayana Scripture" - commonly known as the Nirvana Sutra, for short) is one of the most profound, inspiring and important of all the Buddha's Mahayana sutras. |
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http://www.nirvanasutra.org.uk
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| | Tathagatagarbha is often translated in a gender neutral way as Buddha-nature, but can be more accurately translated as Buddha embryo or the womb containing Buddha (Gross 186). | | | When one is enlightened, we can say that they have achieved “tathagatagarbha,” which means that they are like the Buddha in that they now have the same essential characteristics. |
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http://www.newpaltz.edu/asianstudies/nycas/RyanAwardUndergraduateGraduate2002EmilyMcRae.html
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| | Diamond Mountain Electronic Sangha :: View topic - Mahamudra teaching. |
| | The purpose of teaching the tathagatagarbha is to give the meditator confidence that he already has Buddha nature. | | | The Yogacara Madhyamaka accepts the doctrine of the tathagatagarbha sutras that the Buddha qualities are primordially existent. | | | The third Wheel of the Dharma is explained in detail in the tathagatagarbha sutras and these are commented on in the Mahayanauttaratantrasastra, which in the Tibetan tradition is attributed to Maitreya. |
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http://www.dmes.org/bboard/viewtopic.php?t=243&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
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| | ORIENTALIA - Origin of Evil in Mahayana Buddhism and Kabbalah |
| | The scriptural sources of the Tathagatagarbha doctrine are such canonical texts of Mahayana as Tathagatagarbha sutra, Maha parinirvana sutra and Srimaladevi simhanada sutra. | | | In the first case Tathagatagarbha is the embryo of Boddhahood (state of the Buddha) not only immanent to our own original nature (as well as to the true nature of every sentient being) but it even composes this nature (every being is a potential Buddha, Buddha-to-be). | | | In the second case Tathagatagarbha is One Mind, the Absolute Mind (eka citta) embracing all existence being the substratum of both - samsara and nirvana. |
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http://www.orientalia.org/article604.html
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > Tathagatagarbha |
| | Shunyata is meant to bring those who believe in eternalism to the middle path, whereas Tathagatagarbha is meant to bring those who believe in nihilism to the middle path. | | | It was important to separate jnana from sunyata in order to avod undermining the authority of Buddhist dharmic knowledge. | | | Oct 20 2004, 10:13 PM The way my lineage (Chinese Buddhism) teaches the differences in Shunyata and Tathagatagarbha is that they are just two types of medicine for two different types of people. |
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http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t8722.html
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| | Shunyata |
| | The class of Buddhist scriptures known as the Tathagatagarbha sutras presents a seemingly variant understanding of Emptiness, according to which the Buddha and Nirvana, unlike compounded, conditioned phenomena, are not empty of intrinsic existence, but merely empty of the impermanent, the painful and the Self-less. | | | Shunyata is also key to the Tathagatagarbha literature, which played a formative role in the evolution of subsequent Mahayana doctrine and practice. | | | In the "Srimala Sutra" the Buddha is seen as empty of all defilement and ignorance, not of intrinsic Reality. |
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http://www.apawn.com/search.php?title=Shunyata
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > Buddha Nature - Simply |
| | Specifically, this paper will examine the meaning and significance of the 'tathagatagarbha' (Buddha nature) based on three 'tathagatagarbha' texts and argue that the 'tathagatagarbha'/Buddha nature does not represent a substantial self ('atman'); rather, it is a positive language and expression of 'sunyata' (emptiness) and represents the potentiality to realize Buddhahood through Buddhist practices. | | | However, their studies, especially on the Ratnagotravibhaga, lead to two different interpretations of the 'tathagatagarbha' doctrine, i.e., 'tathagatagarbha as a monistic doctrine, and 'tathagatagarbha' as the embodiment of the principle of dependent co-arising ('pratityasamutpada&;) or 'sunyata', following the traditional 'Mahayana' Buddhist lines. | | | This is why it is said in the 'sutra' that in order to teach the emptiness of all dharmas, the Buddhas preach sometimes by the doctrine of the 'tathagatagarbha', and sometimes by that of emptiness. |
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http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t5840.html
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| | AAR Panel Report A223 |
| | Yin-shun criticizes tathagatagarbha and Buddha-nature doctrine, and therefore most of traditional Chinese Buddhism, as fostering a belief in a permanent, ontological ground of existence--an idea perceived by him as being contrary to emptiness and dependent origination. | | | Yin-shun describes his "Pure Land on earth" as a place wherein both Buddhist practice theoretically grounded on emptiness doctrine and social reform are combined to form what he calls an "anarchic-socialist community." For Lin, this is Yin-shun's most significant contribution to the Buddhist social movement in Taiwan. | | | To clarify his doctrinal position, Yin-shun delineates his own system of classification (pan-chiao) for the Buddhist teachings wherein he differentiates the definitive teachings--those of the Agamas and early Mahayana--from the non-definitive teachings--later Mahayana, Tantric Buddhism, and much of Chinese Buddhism. |
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http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~buddhism/aar-bs/1999/reportA223.htm
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| | Research Resources for Buddhism |
| | trans., The Lion's Roar of Queen Srimala, a Buddhist scripture on the Tathagatagarbha theory Cleary, Thomas. |
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| | Nirvana Sutra :: Appreciation of the "Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra" |
| | In a conversation with the great Bodhisattva, Mahakasyapa, the Buddha teaches that the Self is the "Tathagatagarbha" or "Tathagata-dhatu". | | | Even though it has just a single taste - as the cause of becoming a Buddha - it is transformed into many different tastes by the maturation of the karmic actions of people, who then arise as men, women, or hermaphrodites. | | | In a parable rich in symbolic suggestiveness, the Buddha also speaks of the Tathagatagarbha as being like a distinctive nectar or fragrance emanating from a special tree in the Himalayas. |
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http://www.nirvanasutra.org.uk/selectedextracts.htm
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| | Classification of Religions covered by the OWR |
| | Abhayagirivasins, Amarapura fraternity, Bka'Brgyudpa, Bon-Po, Bri-Gung Bka'-Brgyudpa, 'Brug-Pa Bka'-Brgyud-Pa, Burmese Buddhism,Dge-Lugs-Pa, Karma Bka'-Brgyud-Pa, Ch'an, Chen-yen, Cheng Shih, Ch'in-Tu, Chu-she, Dharmaguptakas, Early Mahayana, Fa-Hsiang, Hua-yen, Jetavaniya, Khmer Buddhism, Madhyamaka, Mahasamghikas, Mahaviharavasins, Mon Buddhism, Mulasarvastivadins, Pudgalavadins, Pyu Buddhism, Ramanna, Ris-Med, Rnying-Ma-Pa, Sarvastivadins, Sa-Skya-Pa, Sautrantikas, Siam Nikaya, Tai Buddhism, Tathagatagarbha, Theravadins, Tibetan Buddhism, T'ien-Tai, Vaibhashikas, Vajrayanas, Vibhajjyavadins, Yogacara. |
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| | Buddhist texts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | These texts teach that every being has a Tathagatagarbha: variously translated as Buddha nature, Buddha seed, Buddha matrix. | | | The Tathagatagarbha doctrine was very influential in East Asian Buddhism, and the idea in one form or another can be found in most of its schools. | | | Especially the Tathagatagarbha Sutra, the Shrīmālādevi-simhanāda Sūtra and the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra (which is very different in character from the Pali Mahaparinibbana Sutta). |
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http://www.leessummit.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Buddhist_texts
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| | Text as Father |
| | Alan Cole, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Lewis & Clark College, is author of Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism (1998). | | | This beautifully written work sheds new light on the origins and nature of Mahayana Buddhism with close readings of four well-known texts--the Lotus Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Tathagatagarbha Sutra, and Vimalakirtinirdesa. | | | Sameness with a Difference in the Tathagatagarbha Sutra |
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http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10273.html
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| | The Vajrasamadhi Sutra |
| | The Buddha replied, “The characteristics of arising and demise of the tathagatagarbha’s functions and discretions are [in accordance with] its concealed principle [of void-calmness], enabling it not to manifest [itself]. | | | When the great assembly heard this essence, all attained right vocation (spiritual mission) and accessed the beyond-coming-and-going (beyond creation-extinction) sea of the tathagatagarbha. | | | Vimukti Bodhisattva addressed the Buddha: “How is it that the nature of the tathagatagarbha is calm and motionless?” |
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http://www.buddhistinformation.com/vajrasamadhi_sutra.htm
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| | Faculty |
| | Research: Tathagatagarbha, Pure Land, Chinese Buddhism, Chinese religions, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Classical Chinese, Sanskrit, Tibetan | | | Accepting Graduate Students for Fall 2006 - areas of particular interest: evolution and the ancient myths and religion of the Bible. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/uofc/faculties/hum/rels/Faculty.htm
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| | Summer 2003 Sutra Retreat - Program Guide |
| | Through the dialogue, the Buddha peels away layer upon layer of appearance to reveal the teaching of the Tathagatagarbha, the Buddha-Matrix, which is the fundamental emptiness that contains all things, the absolute in its final identity with the relative. | | | The Surangama centers around a Socratic dialogue between the Buddha Sakyamuni and his brilliant but erring cousin Ananda. |
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http://www.drby.net/sum03/program.asp
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| | The Lord Buddha presents the Shravakayana teachings that form the basis for all Buddhist study and practice, and the Bodhisattvayana teachings that set forth the vision and practice of the Great Vehicle, the Mahayana. | | | The Bodhisattvayana includes the Sutrayana teachings such as Prajnaparamita and Tathagatagarbha and the Mantrayana teachings revealed in thousands of Tantras. | | | As predicted by the Buddha, the Great Guru Padmasambhava appears in order to transmit the Mantrayana teachings known as the Inner Tantras: Mahayoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga. |
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http://www.nyingma.org/yd/cgth2.html
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| | Chinese Bhiksunis in the Ch'an Tradition |
| | The Ch'an School belongs to the tradition of `Tathagatagarbha` thought which advocates the universal enlightenment and the transcendence of differences in the realm of hsiang or external characteristics. | | | No wonder that it is in the Ch'an School that Chinese Buddhist nuns received more recognition and respect than in any other schools. | | | `Srimala`, an advanced female Bodhisattva, not only is the leading character in a Buddhist sutra, but actually teaches the very important doctrine of `Tathagatagarbha` thought, which happens to advocate the existence of universal Buddhahood. |
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http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-NX020/15_09.htm
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| | Faculty Biography |
| | In his first book, Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism (Stanford University Press, 1988), he considers the role of family values in the construction of Chinese Buddhism as it took form from the 5th to 13th centuries. | | | More recently he finished a book, Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature, that examines the structure and function of narratives in several Mahayana sutras, including: the Lotus Sutra, the Diamond Sutra, the Tathagatagarbha Sutra, and the Vimalakirtinirdesa. |
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http://www.lclark.edu/dept/eas/cole.html
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| | About Empowerments |
| | is what we call 'the seed of buddhahood', 'buddha nature', 'the fundamental nature', or tathagatagarbha. | | | To begin with, our fundamental nature - what we term 'the buddha nature', or tathagatagarbha, the very nature | | | As for empowerment in general, what does the term 'wang', or empowerment, signify? |
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http://www.pcddallas.org/About_Empowerments.htm
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| | ArtScope.net: The Buddha Show: 25 Artists Interpret Buddha |
| | "The Tathagatagarbha Sutra" is quoted from Buddhism in Practice, Ed. | | | Some of the artists in "The Buddha Show" have chosen to interpret a long-established image of the Buddha, but in new, contemporary ways. | | | A visitor is invited to find pleasure, even delight, in the illusion, all the while being aware of illusion, and enjoying that awareness as well. |
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http://www.artscope.net/VAREVIEWS/BuddhaShow1000.shtml
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| | The Buddhist philosophical school of Yogacara established in the frames of Mahayanistic Buddhism is one of the most ... |
| | It must be added that this tendency appeared in its purity first of all in the texts included by the Indo - Tibetan tradition to the group of the so-called Maitreya – Asanga works (the clearest example here is "Mahayana sutralamkara sastra"). | | | This work was included by the Tibetans to the texts of "Maytreya – Asanga" (but the Chinese tradition attributed it to a certain Saramati). | | | This tendency lead Asanga to the positions of the Tathagatagarbha theory represented first of all by the treatise "Ratnagotravibhaga" (or "Uttaratantra"). |
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| | New Dharma Talks - Second Noble Truth |
| | This is where spiritual practices such as meditation come in. | | | Tilopa once came to me in a dream, and proclaimed: “Mind is sheer lucency.” We and all beings are naturally endowed with this luminous Buddha nature, tathagatagarbha, from the beginningless beginning--How to access and realize that? |
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| | Open Tantra Group |
| | In Buddhist writings it is referred to externally as the location where Buddha taught the Kalachakra Tantra and esoterically as the tathagatagarbha, buddha-nature, the essence of all things. | | | Several of Mahendranath’s published and unpublished writings refer to the importance of Shambhala. |
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http://www.geocities.com/open_tantra_group/shambhala_calx.htm
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| | Sublime Salvage |
| | A simile in the Tathagatagarbha Sutra, an influential text in Chinese Buddhism, tells how a man transporting a golden statue wraps it in dirty rags to protect it from marauders. | | | Vajrasara reports on a stunning exhibition of Chinese Buddhist sculpture. | | | Then he dies and the statue is discarded in an unused field. |
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http://www.dharmalife.com/issue19/chinesebuddhas.html
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| | Basic Goodness or Original Sin? |
| | According to the Buddhist perspective there are problems, but they are temporary and superficial defilements that cover over one’s basic goodness (tathagatagarbha). | | | Of course this viewpoint has its philosophical and psychological expressions in concepts such as bodhichitta (awakened mind), and tathagatagarbha (birthplace of the enlightened ones). |
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http://www.shambhalasun.com/Archives/Features/2002/Nov02/vctr.htm
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| | Modern Physics |
| | In that work, which is described as the bridge between the sutras and tantras, Asanga and Maitreya suggest that there must exist something external which initiates the process of perception and evokes compassion and widsom from sentient beings. | | | We have apparent dualities in physics such as energy-matter, space-time, and wave-particle which must be transcended in order to reach a more fundamental level of the physical world. | | | Tathagatagarbha is not only the primordial awareness of a fully awakened beings, totally beyond sense organs and beyond concepts and ordinary consciousness, but it is also representative of ultimate reality itself. |
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| | The Lankavatara-sutra (a Mahayana sutra of a later date than the Anguttara-nikaya and which has greatly influenced Zen), qualifies tathagatagarbha by the corresponding Sanskrit word prabhasvara (luminous). | | | It says that the tathatagarbha is prakrtiprabhasvara (luminous by nature) and prakrtiparisuddha (pure by nature), but it appears impure 'because it is defiled by adventitious defilements' (agantuklesopaklistataya). | | | the Pali expression in the two suttas above: agantukehi upakkilesehi upakkilittham.) In the Lankavatara-sutra the term tathagatagarbha is used as a synonym for alayavijnana. |
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http://departments.colgate.edu/greatreligions/pages/buddhanet/zen325/zenten.txt
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| | Articles - Anatta |
| | all beings, though they find themselves with all sorts of klesas, have a tathagatagarbha [Buddhic essence, embryonic Buddha] that is eternally unsullied, and that is replete with virtues no different from my own" (Lopez, 1995, p.96). | | | In the "Tathagatagarbha Sutra" the Buddha tells of how, with his Buddha-eye, he can actually see this hidden Buddhic "jewel" within each and every being: "hidden within the klesas [mental contaminants] of greed, desire, anger, and stupidity there is seated augustly and unmovingly the tathagata& [Buddha&] wisdom, the tathagata& vision, and the tathagata& body. | | | Thus the "non-Self" doctrine receives a controversial presentation in the Tathagatagarbha sutras as merely partial truth rather than as absolute verity. |
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| | Nitartha Institute: Overview of Curriculum |
| | Of the four courses, one introduces the Chittamatra (Mind Only) school, while a two-course sequence serves as introduction to Madhyamaka (the Middle Way school), and one teaches the Tathagatagarbha (Buddha Nature) tradition. | | | It is also possible to take subsequent courses out of sequence if that is required for one’s schedule. | | | These courses in turn provide the basis for further in-depth study of the Mahayana, as well as of the Vajrayana, in the Advanced curriculum. |
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| | Namo Buddha Newsletter for April, 2004 |
| | "These great teachings from Maitreya constitute one of the major foundations of the bodhisattva path, providing teachings on both the relative and ultimate truths and elucidating the second and third turnings of the Wheel of Dharma, the Prajnaparamita, and Tathagatagarbha. | | | In order to understand the profound and vast meaning of these texts, one of my own philosophy teachers, the erudite Kagyu scholar and supreme abbot of the lineage, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, through his great wisdom and compassion has elucidated these texts with profound clarity and simplicity." | | | The book also includes 71 notes, an extensive glossary and index. |
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http://www.rinpoche.com/newsletters/newsltr4.04.htm
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| | Yogachara Glossary |
| | in the doctrine of Tathagatagarbha alaya-vijnana can be understood as defiled garbha. | | | As the One Mind Tathagatagarbha is a substratum of every being (every dharma), that is, dharmata, dharma-nature. |
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http://www.kheper.net/topics/Buddhism/Yogacara_glossary.html
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| | Shambhala - A Definition of Shambhala |
| | It is the symbol for mind, completing the trinity of body, speech, and mind. | | | The esoteric meaning of Shambhala is tathagatagarbha, buddha-nature, the essence of all things. |
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http://www.shambhala.com/html/about/defined.cfm
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| | The Body, Speech and Mind of a Buddha |
| | This site is maintained and updated by The Office of Tibet, the official agency of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in London. | | | We have within us the seed of purity, the essence of a One Gone Thus (Tathagatagarbha), that is to be transformed and fully developed into Buddhahood. |
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http://www.tibet.com/Buddhism/om-mantra.html
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| | Richard King (Vanderbilt University) |
| | Doctrinal Tensions in the Srimala Sutra - An Early Tathagatagarbha Text" in Numen. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/data/indiv/area/idsas/KING,Richard.htm
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