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	Tathagatagarbha doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 doctrine is closely related to the notion of the Buddha-nature; indeed, in the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra, which is the lengthiest sutra dealing with the immanent and transcendent presence of the Tathagatagarbha within all beings, the terms "Buddha-nature" ("Buddha-dhatu") and "Tathagatagarbha" are presented as essentially synonymous.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tathagatagarbha (620 words)

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		The Tathagatagarbha excludes the realm with the characteristic of the constructed.
		Therefore the Tathagatagarbha is the support, the holder, the base of constructed [Buddha natures] that are nondiscrete, not dissociated, and knowing as liberated from the stores of defilement; and furthermore is the support, the holder, the base of external constructed natures that are discrete, dissociated, and knowing as not liberated.
		Lord, this Tathagatagarbha is the embryo of the illustrious Dharmadhatu, the embryo of the Dharmakaya, the embryo of the supramundane Doctrine, the embryo of the intrinsically pure Doctrine.
	www.textfiles.com /occult/WORLDSCRIPTURE/theme007.out (1802 words)

	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.
		Tathagatagarbha emphasises the positive nature of realisation, and especially it gives a positive revisioning of the teaching of emptiness.
		Tathagatagarbha has a positive view of the phenomenal world. In this teaching, material reality is not other than the reality of Suchness.
	www.kamalashila.co.uk /talks/Tathatagarbha.htm (1425 words)

	Bodhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		Queen Maya holding the branch of a Bodhi tree, during the birth of Siddhartha Gautama, Gandhara, 2-3rd century CE.
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Bodhi (620 words)

	Snow Lion Publications: Snow Lion Newsletter: Is Buddhism Really Nontheistic? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Consequently, the tathagatagarbha, which utterly transcends all words and concepts- including the very notions of existence and nonexistence, one and many, and subject and object- appears to be a blank unthinking void, which is known as the universal ground (alaya) (p.
		In this way, all the elements of the physical world are seen as symbolic expressions of the tathagatagarbha, and all the five elements are said to be present in each one, just as all the five primordial wisdoms are present in each one.
		As a development of the thesis stated in the Lankavatara Sutra that the tathagatagarbha is the source of both good and evil, The Vajra Heart Tantra asserts that it is the ground not only of all the qualities of enlightenment, but of the primary mental afflictions of delusion, hatred, pride, attachment, and jealousy.
	www.snowlionpub.com /pages/N49_2.php (2883 words)

	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.
		The true state of the tathagatagarbha is said to be infinite and beyond all limitation, delusion, and conditioning; it is of one taste with the ultimate reality.
	www.utoronto.ca /humanities-centre/fellows_gs.html (3770 words)

	Brian Hafer’s Homepage - Deity Yoga
		The doctrine of tathagatagarbha (Buddha-essence) appears to have emerged independently of the Madhyamika school of Mahayana, although its historical origins are not clearly understood.
		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.
		Thus, all sounds heard are to be perceived as emanations of the mantra of the deity, all physical objects are to be seen as manifestations of the mandala space, and all beings encountered are to be thought of as form bodies of the deity.
	bhafer.home.comcast.net /deityyoga.html (12280 words)

	Lion's Roar of Queen Srimala
		Lord, the Tathagatagarbha is the locus of this explanation of the meaning of the Noble Truths.
		Because the locus of the Tathagatagarbha is profound, the meaning of the Noble Truths is considered to be profound and subtle, difficult to understand, incapable of being judged, and not in the domain of logic.
		Lord, this Tathagatagarbha is the embryo of the Illustrious Dharmadhatu, the embryo of the Dharmakaya, the embryo of supramundane dharma, the embryo of the intrinsically pure dharma.
	www-hsc.usc.edu /~pgallahe/buddhism/srimala.html (9271 words)

	TATHAGATAGARBHA DOCTRINE FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		The Tathagatagarbha doctrine is closely related to the notion of the Buddha-nature; indeed, in the Mahayana_Mahaparinirvana_Sutra, which is the lengthiest sutra dealing with the immanent and transcendent presence of the Tathagatagarbha within all beings, the terms "Buddha-nature" ("Buddha-dhatu") and "Tathagatagarbha" are presented as essentially synonymous.
		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.
	www.witwib.com /Tathagatagarbha_doctrine (597 words)

	Tathagatagarbha doctrine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Tathagatagarbha doctrine arose mainly within Mahayanists who were associated to some degree or another with Yogacara studies, in order to clearly account for the possibility of the attainment of Buddhahood by ignorant sentient beings.
		The Tathagatagarbha doctrine is closely related to that of the notion of Buddha-nature.
		Key texts associated with this doctrine are the Tathagatagarbha Sutra which contains a series of images for what the Tathagatagarbha is, and The Lion's Roar Discourse of Queen śrimala.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/tathagatagarbha_doctrine (453 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > Buddha Nature - Simply
		The term "'tathagatagarbha'" is generally taken as to mean that the "garbha" of a 'Tathagata'; exists in all sentient beings without exception, and though temporarily contaminated by adventitious defilement ('agantukaklesa'), it is the cause which eventually leads sentient beings to enlightenment.
		Accordingly, 'Mahamati', the 'Tathagatas'; disclose the doctrine of the 'tathagatagarbha' which is thus not to be known as identical with the philosopher's notion of an egosubstance.
		In other words, it is exactly to help sentient beings case away their fear of 'anatman' that the 'tathagatagarbha' with positive attributes (i.e., 'asunya-tathagatagarbha') is taught, and at the same time it is to get rid of the clinging of 'atman' that the 'anatman-tathagatagarbha' is taught.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t5840.html (11298 words)

	Dictionary Information: Definition Tathagatagarbha - Description Meaning Thesaurus
		tathagatagarbha is the conscious experience of the manifestation of form out of formlessness.
		tathagatagarbha is the surrounding substance from which the mind originates, develops, and is contained.
		The tathagata is called the 'mind of clear and pure reflection,' or 'reality + mental body in various state of mind.
	selfknowledge.com /109715.htm (291 words)

	Buddhist texts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Especially the Tathagatagarbha Sutra, the Shrīmālādevi-simhanāda Sūtra and the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra (which is very different in character from the Pali Mahaparinibbana Sutta).
		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.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Buddhist_texts (4618 words)

	Influence of Yogacara on Tantra - Traleg Rinpoche, Kagyu E-Vam Buddhist Institute, 1984 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Madhyamika school, for instance, rejects the notion of tathagatagarbha altogether, because for them it is still a concept.
		For them, the tathagatagarbha notion is, as they say, taught by the Buddha only for beginners, so that, gradually, they will wake up to the fact that Madhyamika is the answer.
		The tantric tradition uses the notion of tathagatagarbha, but it is expressed in a different way and is called clear light or something like that.
	www.evaminstitute.org.au /rinpoche/trteach3.htm (1298 words)

	Articles - Tathagatagarbha Sutra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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 Tathagatagarbha Sutra constitutes one of a number of Buddha-nature sutras (including the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, the Srimala Sutra, and the Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdesa scripture) which apodeictically declare the reality of an Awakened Essence within each being.
	lastring.com /articles/Tathagatagarbha_Sutra?... (394 words)

	Evgueni A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The theory of the Tathagatagarbha was the logical and natural result of the evolution of the Buddhist Mahayana thought.
		The Tathagatagarbha doctrine proclaimed the Atman behind skandhas as super empirical absolute reality attainable only in the state of enlightenment / awakening (making in the same time the nature of every kind of consciousness as semsnyid in rdzogs-chen, or fo xin
		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
	etor.h1.ru /intbud.html (607 words)

	ORIENTALIA - Origin of Evil in Mahayana Buddhism and Kabbalah
		This drawback was corrected by the doctrine of Tathagatagarbha the examination of which is essential for this study.
		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).
		The scriptural sources of the Tathagatagarbha doctrine are such canonical texts of Mahayana as Tathagatagarbha sutra, Maha parinirvana sutra and Srimaladevi simhanada sutra.
	www.orientalia.org /article604.html (6261 words)

	Nirvana Sutra :: Appreciation of the "Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Their bodily forms are indeed like the different “tastes” of the elixir, having been influenced by the diverse channels of karmic action down which they have flowed from one life to the next.
		This Buddha-potency of the tathagatagarbha is, we learn, present everywhere, yet hidden by negative mental proclivities, and is the life-force which animates each being.
		Furthermore, that Self (defined as the Tathagatagarbha) is already present inside each being; it is already there within, but fails to be seen.
	www.nirvanasutra.org.uk /selectedextracts.htm (10486 words)

	The Buddhist doctrine of «self» (from Theravada to Tathagatagarbha)
		The Buddhist doctrine of «self» (from Theravada to Tathagatagarbha)
		The Tathagatagarbha doctrine proclaimed the Atman behind skandhas as super empirical absolute reality attainable only in the state of enlightenment / awakening (making in the same time the nature of every kind of consciousness as semsnyid in rdzogs-chen, or fo xin in Chan).
		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.
	www.kheper.net /topics/Buddhism/doctrine_of_self.html (623 words)

	Diamond Mountain Electronic Sangha :: View topic - Mahamudra teaching. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		It lays out the doctrine on tathagatagarbha under ten headings and it gives the nine examples from the tathagatagarbha sutra which illustrate how, although the tathagatagarbha remains unchanged, the veils have to be removed.
		the tathagatagarbha) is empty of the contingent (stains) that are separable, since they are not of its essence, but not empty of the Buddha qualities that are not separable, since they are of its essence.
	www.dmes.org /bboard/viewtopic.php?t=243&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 (8606 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > Tathagatagarbha
		Oct 20 2004, 07:09 AM "Buddha-Nature" and "Tathagatagarbha" are the same thing.
		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.
		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.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t8722.html (2023 words)

	Modern Physics
		The third turning is often identified with the idealism of the Cittamatrins and before discussing the Yogacara, a brief description of the "extreme" idealistic position is appropriate.
		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.
		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.
	www.colorado.edu /APS/landscapes/tibet/modern_physics.htm (9959 words)

	The Buddhist philosophical school of Yogacara established in the frames of Mahayanistic Buddhism is one of the most ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This tendency lead Asanga to the positions of the Tathagatagarbha theory represented first of all by the treatise "Ratnagotravibhaga" (or "Uttaratantra").
		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").
		It is possible that the position of these works of Asanga had played an important role in the process of integration of the Yogacara ideas into the theory of the Tathagatagarbha.
	etor.h1.ru /xuanzang.html (1490 words)

	Theos-Talk Archives (June 1999 Message tt00076)
		Cyrus has a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Washington in Seattle, and is the author of several articles on Buddhism.
		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.
		In particular she does this with reference to the only surviving Indian commentary on the Tathagatagarbha doctrine, the Ratnagotravibhaga.
	www.theosophy.com /theos-talk/199906/tt00076.html (917 words)

	AAR Panel Report A223
		In Yin-shun's opinion, without an understanding that all beings are essentially empty of a permanent, unchanging self and are dependent upon each other for existence, the ability to obtain wisdom and exercise compassion is undermined.
		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.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~buddhism/aar-bs/1999/reportA223.htm (1339 words)

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