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	Buddha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Buddha (Sanskrit, Pali, others: literally Awakened One or Enlightened One, from the root: √budh, "to awaken") is a title used in Buddhism for anyone who has discovered enlightenment (bodhi), although it is commonly used to refer to Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha.
		A Buddha is one who rediscovers the Dharma (that is, truth; the nature of reality, of the mind, of the affliction of the human condition and the correct "path" to liberation) by enlightenment, which comes to be after skillful or good karma (action) is perfectly maintained and all negative unskillful actions are abandoned.
		That sutra has the Buddha indicate that he became Awakened countless, immeasurable, inconceivable myriads of trillions of aeons ("kalpas") ago and that his lifetime is "forever existing and immortal".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddha (910 words)

	Tathagatagarbha doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tathagata is one of the ten epithets for a Buddha.
		The Tathagatagarbha doctrine arose with the Mahayanists and later became linked with those who were associated to some degree or another with Yogacara studies, aiming clearly to account for the possibility of the attainment of Buddhahood by ignorant sentient beings (the "Tathagatagarbha" is the indwelling "bodhi" - Awakening - in the very heart of Samsara).
		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).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tathagatagarbha_doctrine (620 words)

	The Berzin Archives - Buddha-Nature According to Gelug-Chittamatra, Svatantrika, and Prasangika (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		According to Chittamatra, the naturally abiding family-traits are the seeds (sa-bon) that, without beginning, are imputable on the basis of the stained mind of each limited being (sentient being) and which serve as factors allowing that being to attain one of three purified states (byang-chub, Skt.
		The evolving family-traits are the seeds that, newly gained by listening to, contemplating, or meditating on Buddha's teachings, are imputable on the basis of the stained mind of each limited being and which serve as factors allowing that being to attain arya pathway minds ('phags-lam) in the category of shravakas, pratyekabuddhas, or bodhisattvas.
		According to Prasangika-Madhyamaka, the naturally abiding family-traits are the voidnesses imputable on the basis of the stained mind of each limited being.
	berzinarchives.com /sutra/sutra_level_4/buddha_nature_according.html (640 words)

	BUDDHA NATURE I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Buddha explained that all our problems and suffering arise from confused and negative states of mind, and that all our happiness and good fortune arise from peaceful and positive states of mind.
		Later, Buddha taught the second and third Wheels of Dharma, which include the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras and the Sutra Discriminating the Intention respectively.
		In the Hinayana teachings Buddha explains how to attain liberation from suffering for oneself alone, and in the Mahayana teachings he explains how to attain full enlightenment, or Buddhahood, for the sake of others.
	homepage.mac.com /cheeky.monkey/buddha/Personal9.html (799 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Buddha Nature
		It is the lack of inherent nature of the Buddha that is Buddha nature.
		It is said that we each have Buddha nature in the sense that we are each lacking any nature of our own as well and thus our state of samsaric suffering can be relieved and replaced by a state of nirvanic bliss because these two states are empty of nature as well.
		Buddha nature in its negative sense is a lack (of inherent nature), but if we imagine the implications of this in a positive sense, this implies to me a positive state of infinite potentiality.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=9779 (2573 words)

	The Berzin Archives - Buddha-Nature: First Day of a Discourse on Uttaratantra - 1 Background Discussion
		In other words, the topic it treats is the basis or essential factor that has allowed all the Buddhas of the past to have progressed toward and to have reached their states of attainment and which will allow, in the future, those such as us to become totally clear-minded and fully evolved.
		Then, concerning the "basic foundation of the mind," Buddha explained the essential nature of the reality of the mind as voidness: it is devoid of all impossible ways of existing.
		Buddha commented on these two ways of understanding "the self-nature of mind is clear light" in an uncommon manner at the occasion of the last round of Dharma transmission.
	www.angelfire.com /rings/prasangika/Buddha-naure.htm (5730 words)

	BUDDHA NATURE By Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
		Recognition of this primordial nature resembles the rising of the sun of wisdom in the night of ignorance: the darkness is instantly dispelled.
		It is the same with the nature of mind: it is not spoiled by the arrival of thoughts; nor improved by their disappearance.
		But all the way along this spiritual journey, although there is an appearance of transformation, the nature of the mind has never changed: it was not corrupted on entry onto the path, and it was not improved at the time of realization.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /tibetan/buddha_nature__by_dilgo_khyentse.htm (974 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > Buddha Nature - Simply
		Buddha Nature is the medicine for the confused thought that nothing exists, there is nothing to realize, and so it doesn't matter, i.e., an antidote to nihilism and lack of faith.
		Buddha nature is presumably a different experience for everyone but as I see it self and other are all one buddha, keep going and you become that buddha of self and other infact you always were that buddha.
		Buddha said to Ananda, "It is your perception of false appearances based on external objects which deludes your true nature and has caused you from beginningless time to your present life to recognize a thief as your son, to lose your eternal source, and to undergo the wheel’s turning."
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t5840.html (11298 words)

	The Buddha We Are
		Buddha nature is just another name for human nature–true human nature." This means that being Buddha is intrinsic or essential to being human.
		The word "Buddha" means "an awakened one," one who is awake to things as they really are, without the coloring and attachments of our individual conditioning.
		It does not mean that beings possess a Buddha nature, or that beings are containers in which a seed form of Buddha can be found, as if there were two realities, beings and Buddha.
	www.intrex.net /chzg/Pat2.htm (1392 words)

	Publications
		What Buddha sees is the original nature of the cup, which is clay, not the physical form or function of the cup.
		Since Buddha’s focus is on the original nature, it does not matter if the clay is made into cups, bowels, or plates.
		The Buddha Nature that all sentient beings can awake to is referred to Awakening Buddha Nature, the first part of Buddha Nature.
	taosculture.org /English/Publications/buddha2.htm (496 words)

	ORIENTALIA - Attaining the Buddha-Nature Here and Now
		The term as it is interpreted by Kukai refers to this power on the part of the Buddha and also response to and reception of it on the part of the practitioner.
		Also, "Buddhas", "Bodhisattvas" and (sages of) the Two Vehicles refer to the world of Wisdom-Enlightenment; "sentient beings" refer to the world of sentient beings; and "receptacle-worlds" refer to the world of receptacle.
		For this reason, the Buddha expounds the six elements to be the essential substance of Dharmadhhatu.
	www.orientalia.org /article603.html (6147 words)

	Buddha Nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is the buddha nature, the undifferentiability of clarity and emptiness.
		The fact that the true nature of mind could be this clear light, the buddha nature that is completely free of any imperfection at all, and yet be obscured by temporary stains, is called the first of the "four inconceivable points" in a text called the Gyü Lama.
		The qualities of the basic nature of this clear light, or buddha nature, are that it is naturally open, spacious and relaxed.
	www.purifymind.com /BuddhaNature13.htm (461 words)

	Simhanada --- Buddha Nature and Buddhahood: the Mahayana and the Tantrayana ---Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This is the very nature of desire—at one point things seem very attractive but very quickly one realizes that they are not so useful or lasting as they seemed.
		So it is with the nature of aggression and anger which is also very unpleasant; it stings and hurts.
		The third example of grains of rice inside their husks is used to point to the nature of the third main defilement which is ignorance or stupidity.
	www.simhas.org /teaching14.html (2031 words)

	The Buddha Nature Is
		It indicates that the Buddha returns to the realm of the lower nine worlds to lead people to enlightenment, and that while existing in the lower nine worlds, ordinary people have the potential to attain Buddhahood.
		The role of the Buddha is not that of a supernatural being to which others are subservient.
		Outwardly we may be common mortals, yet we are naturally endowed with the potential to develop the state of absolute freedom of Buddhahood.
	www.sgi-usa.org /buddhism/buddhismtoday/bc037.htm (808 words)

	Glossary
		The concept of decline, dissension and schism within the Dharma after the passing of the Buddha is a general teaching of Buddhism and a corollary to the Truth of Impermanence.
		It is the realm of Vairocana Buddha, the transcendental aspect of Buddha Shakyamuni and of all Buddhas.
		It was in response to her entreaties that Buddha Shakyamuni preached the Meditation Sutra, which teaches a series of sixteen visualizations (of Amitabha Buddha, the Pure Land...) leading to rebirth.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /pureland/mindseal06.htm (6060 words)

	Snow Lion Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		BUDDHA NATURE: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra with Commentary
		All sentient beings, without exception have buddha nature, the inherent purity and perfection of the mind, untouched by changing mental states.
		This seeing is obscured by veils which are removable and do not touch the inherent purity and perfection of the nature of the mind as such.
	www.snowlionpub.com /search.php?in_item_id=4953 (429 words)

	THE BASIC TEACHING OF BUDDHA
		Because the Buddha knew what was in the hearts of children and human kind, he taught everyone how to live a happy and peaceful life.
		The Buddha's teaching goes round and round like a great wheel that never stops, leading to the central point of the wheel, the only point which is fixed, Nirvana.
		The Buddha knew it would be difficult for people to follow his teachings on their own, so he established the Three Refuges for them to rely on.
	online.sfsu.edu /~rone/Buddhism/footsteps.htm (8225 words)

	Buddhist philosophy, Indian : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
		The Buddha is also portrayed as a model of virtue, a man who has mastered the art of living in the world without bringing harm to other living beings and whose concern for the welfare of all living things around him is unsurpassed.
		Discussions about the nature of the Buddha were as important to some Buddhist philosophers as discussions about the nature of God were to the theologians of theistic traditions (see Buddha).
		The earliest extant record of controversies concerning the nature of the Buddha is a work known as Kathāvatthu (Points of Controversy), supposed to have been written around 246 bc by an elder monk known as Tissa Moggalīputta.
	www.rep.routledge.com /article/F001SECT3 (799 words)

	Songs and Meditations of the Tibetan Dhyani Buddhas
		Vajrasattva is the Buddha of diamond-wisdom, and is the chief Buddha of the five Dhyani Buddhas.
		He is known as the Buddha of discriminating wisdom as well as the Buddha of infinite light.
		He is the Buddha of mirror-like wisdom and is known as the Immovable One.
	www.buddhanature.com (846 words)

	Tathagatagarbha - Buddha Nature
		Tathagatagarbha emphasises the positive nature of realisation, and especially it gives a positive revisioning of the teaching of emptiness.
		Buddha Nature and Buddhist practice are essentially the same thing. Buddha Nature is not a theory, it is an omnipresent reality, and Buddhist practice simply links us into that reality.
		So now we have a kind of definition. In principle Tathagatagarbha, the Buddha Nature, is the latent condition which actually brings about enlightenment. In personal practice, it’s the realisation of Suchness, of Tathata; and for each of us individually it’s the situation, the immediate conditions that bring forth realisation of Suchness.
	www.kamalashila.co.uk /talks/Tathatagarbha.htm (1425 words)

	Neo-confucianism and the Buddha nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The original nature is perfect and complete while the material nature is flawed and in need of refinement.
		Further, the original nature concept is founded mostly on ideas introduced by Daoism and Buddhism, i.e., the concept of emptiness, things do not exist independently and they do not endure.
		Also, If I understand correctly, this original nature is equivalent to the Buddha nature or the Dharmakaya which assumes an essence body or a consciousness that is merged in the universal consciousness.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /ngier/_disc3/00000102.htm (260 words)

	Khenpo Tsultrim on Buddha Nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		don't know that this nature pervades all equally, like butter existing in milk, we engage in faults, such as thinking we don't have the ability to attain enlightenment, or that some beings are superior to others.
		Khenpo Rinpoche further transmitted a glimpse of primordial perfection when speaking of the ten aspects of Buddha Nature's existence, among which is fruition, encompassing the transcendent perfection of the qualities of purity, bliss, self, and permanence.
		Continuing with the ten aspects of Buddha nature, Khenpo Tsultrim spoke of manifestation, which has three phases, or ways in which beings relate to their Buddha Nature: Ordinary beings relate mistakenly; Bodhisattvas relate unmistakenly; and Buddhas relate in a manner beyond conception.
	www.khandro.net /lama_Tsultrim_BudNature.htm (1165 words)

	Naropa Online - Buddha Nature: The Nature of Enlightenment in the Uttaratantra and Mahamudra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		These teachings are generally described using the name "Buddha Nature," and form the foundation of one of the most profound Buddhist traditions of practice and accomplishment, called the "Great Seal" or "Mahamudra".
		In this course we examine the teachings of Buddha Nature and the sutra tradition of mahamudra through the close study of a landmark treatise by Gö Lotsawa (1392-1481 A.D.).
		The lectures (pre-recorded oral presentations as well as written transcripts) on the Buddha Nature prepared by Rinpoche are the substantive teaching materials for the course.
	www.naropa.edu /distance/courses/REL527e.htm (784 words)

	Buddha Nature
		For Dogen, Buddha Nature wasn’t a potentiality to be actualized sometime in the future; it was the original, fundamental nature of all beings.
		This idea refuted the commonly held idea at the time that Buddha nature was like a seed, or like some small, dormant quality off in the corner of our being, which, when receiving the rain of Dharma, sprouted and grew.
		Dogen stressed that Buddha nature is the essential ingredient we couldn’t be without.
	www.intrex.net /chzg/buddha.htm (1170 words)

	Buddha nature, limitless and changeless within all sentient beings
		This calligraphy expresses the essence of the Buddhist view, the Buddha nature, the potential for enlightenment present within all of us.
		In the heart of all sentient beings all Buddhas naturally manifest.
		In the heart of all sentient beings the Buddha nature is ever present.
	www.theartofcalligraphy.com /buddhanature.html (127 words)

	Buddha Nature CD - New Earth Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He has become a leading light in the music of healing and meditation, and Buddha Nature is his most focused yet most stridently abstract work in this genre to date.
		Deuter's correct perception that Buddha Nature is inseparable from bliss/void and compassion — illustrated by the image of Avlokiteshvara (the Buddha of compassion who the Dalai Lama is said to be a reincarnation of) on the cover — creates five meditative tracks that deal with different aspects of the Path impressionistically.
		Buddha Nature is not as Asian as the name might imply, but rather an album of sublime music...
	www.newearthrecords.com /ProductCart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=21 (802 words)

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