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	Tathagatagarbha doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The concept of the Tathagatagarbha is closely related to that of the Buddha-nature; indeed, in the Angulimaliya Sutra and 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 employed as synonymous concepts.
		The Tathagatagarbha is indicated by the relevant sutras to be the ultimate, pure, ungraspable, inconceivable, irreducible, unassailable, boundless, true and deathless Quintessence of the Buddha's liberating Reality, the very core of his highest being (Dharmakaya).
		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 (1037 words)

	Buddhist texts - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Platform Sutra of Huineng might be considered a semi-canonical text, it is one of a very few texts not thought to be spoken by the Buddha that has the label "sutra".
		The Gandhavyuha sutra is thought to be the source of a cult of Vairocana that later gave rise to the Mahavairocana-adhisambodhi tantra which became one of two central texts in Shingon Buddhism, and is included in the Tibetan canon as a carya class tantra.
		A number of sutras which focus on the actions which lead to existence in the various spheres of existence, or which expound the doctrine of the twelve links of pratitya-samutpada or dependent-origination.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Buddhist_texts (4656 words)

	Wikipedia: Tathagatagarbha Doctrine
		The Tathagatagarbha Doctrine is not associated with it's own school of practice as the Madhayamika or Yogacara, it is however one of the essential Mahayana doctrines.
		However in the Mahayana version of the Mahaparinirvana Sutra Tathagatagarbha is equated with Atman in direct contradiction of earlier Buddhist doctrine.
		The Sutra contains many Hindu elements and is thought to have been composed during the Gupta Period which coincided with a Hindu revival in India.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/t/ta/tathagatagarbha_doctrine.html (486 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Anatta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Specifically in sutra, anatta is used to describe the nature of any and all composite, consubstantial, phenomenal, and temporal things, from the macrocosmic, to microcosmic, be it matter as pertains the physical body or the cosmos at large, including any and all mental machinations which are of the nature of arising and passing.
		Common throughout Buddhist sutra is the denial of psycho-physical attributes of the mere empirical self to be the Soul, or confused with same.
		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's [Buddha's] wisdom, the tathagata's vision, and the tathagata's body.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Anatta (2379 words)

	Buddha-nature - Karmiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The concept of "seeds" espoused by the Sautrantikas in debate with the Sarvastivadins over the metaphysical status of dharmas is a precursor to the store-consciousness of the Yogacara school and the tathagatagarbha (Gethin, p.222), the latter of which is closely related to Buddha-nature and the former of which is identified with it in Yogacara.
		The Buddha states (in the Tibetan version of the Sutra): "all phenomena ["dharmas"] are not non-Self: the Self is Reality("tattva"), the Self is eternal ("nitya"), the Self is virtue ("guna"), the Self is everlasting ("shasvata"), the Self is stable ("dhruva"), and the Self is peace ("siva")".
		The main concern in the "Mahaparinirvana Sutra" in contrasting this doctrine of the Self with that of the Astikas seems to have been to remove the reifying notion that the Self was a little person, the size of a grain of rice or of one's thumb, sitting in the heart of the being.
	www.usedkarma.com /wiki/index.php?title=Buddha-nature (780 words)

	Tathagatagarbha - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		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 that of the notion of 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 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).
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Tathagatagarbha (679 words)

	Nirvana Sutra :: Appreciation of the "Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra"
		Inspired by this superlative sutra, I have created this website to encourage the accurate study and practice of what may be called "Nirvana Sutra Buddhism" - a very positive, balanced, faith-promoting and spiritually affirmative manifestation of Buddhism, which recognises the hidden reality of the egoless Buddha-Self in all beings.
		The Mahaparinirvana Sutra is a key sutra for an understanding of the Buddha's teachings on the Buddha-dhatu ("Buddha Nature", "Buddha Element", "Buddha Principle") and the synonymous Tathagatagarbha (indwelling Buddha Essence of each being).
		The English text of the sutra mainly cited for reference throughout this study is the specially commissioned English translation by Stephen Hodge of both the Faxian and Tibetan versions of the scripture, as well as that same scholar's occasional forays into the Dharmakshema "Northern" version.
	www.nirvanasutra.org.uk (1014 words)

	Uttaranchal/Uttarakhand Information Centre
		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.
	www.4dham.com /go2/Tathagatagarbha_Sutra.html (372 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)

	Srimala Sutra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Śrīmālā Sūtra (full title:) is one of the main early Mahayana Buddhist texts that taught the doctrines of tathagatagarbha and the Single Vehicle, through the words of the Indian Queen Śrīmālā.
		The sutra teaches the reality of an ultimate, immaculate Consciousness within each living being, which is the Buddhic "Dharmakaya" (essence of Truth), which is yet temporarily sheathed in obscuring defilement.
		The sutra has significantly contributed to the Mahayana notion of the permanent, steadfast and eternal "Tathagatagarbha" (Buddha-Matrix), which is nothing less than the perfect Dharmakaya temporarily concealed by (ultimately unreal) mental contaminants.
	srimala-sutra.ask.dyndns.dk (264 words)

	Buddhist texts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sutras which teach the doctrine of 'cittaamattra' or mind only, which is associated with the Yogacara school.
		These sutras, especially the Lankavatara were influential on the Ch'an or Zen schools.
		Especially the Tathagatagarbha Sutra, the Shriimaalaadeviisimhanaada Sutra and the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra (which is very different in character from the Pali Mahaparinirvana Sutta).
	www.aseannewsnetwork.de /articles/content/b/bu/buddhist_texts.html (4494 words)

	A Growing Bank of Saddha Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is perhaps in the âPure Landâ sutras that faith and devotion reach a pinnacle of soteriological importance.
		This interpretation of the âPure Landâ sutras represents perhaps the zenith of faith-oriented Buddhism and remains controversial, although Shinranâs school of âJodo Shinshuâ is today perhaps the largest Buddhist sect in Japan.
		One of the most famous of Mahayana sutras, the Lotus Sutra, also embraces the ideal of faith, but links it to discernment (which would appear to be more in harmony with the Buddhaâs general doctrines).
	gemstones.nowmore.net /Saddha.htm (2317 words)

	The Significance Of 'Tathagatagarbha' --
		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.
	zencomp.com /greatwisdom/ebud/ebdha191.htm (3537 words)

	Anatta - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The non-doctrinal commentarial "anatta" doctrine attempts to encourage the Buddhist practitioner to detach him/herself from this misplaced clinging to what is mistakenly regarded as his or her Self, and from such detachment (aided by moral living and meditation) the way to Nirvana is able successfully to be traversed.
		All occurrences of anatta in Sutra contextually appear as: "A is anatta (not-Self), B is anatta, etc."
		Anatta is one of the Three Seals of Buddhist doctrines and is an important element of wisdom through the apophatic technique used to experience Nirvana, the other two being Dukkha and Anicca.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Anatta (2195 words)

	Essence Sutras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The most important sutras or scriptural discourses of the Buddha for understanding tathagatagarbha or Buddhanature are the ten "Essence Sutras." These ten sutras serve textual basis for zhentong.
		Among these Essence Sutras, the Tathagatagarbha Sutra appears to be the earliest occurrence of the Buddha's teaching on Buddhanature.
		The Maha-pari-nirvana Sutra, Shri-mala-devi-simha-nanda Sutra, and Samdhi-nirmochana Sutra were highly influential though appear to be rather late.
	jonangfoundation.org /teachings/essence-sutras.shtml (120 words)

	Tathagatagarbha doctrine - Gurupedia
		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.gurupedia.com /b/bu/buddha_nature.htm (387 words)

	Tathagatagarbha Buddhism
		As the founder and leading advocate of a new "Nirvana Sutra Buddhism" approach to the practice of Buddhism (see my major website on the "Nirvana Sutra": www.nirvanasutra.org.uk), I hope that the current website will offer some inspiration to other Buddhists who are intuitively drawn to the indwelling, indestructible, radiant, ego-free Soul ("atman") of the Buddha.
		It is striking that, unlike the "Buddha-dhatu" of the "Mahaparinirvana Sutra", which is much more abstract and intangible in nature, the "tathagatagarbha" of the present sutra is envisioned as a body-and-wisdom-endowed Buddhic being residing in the deeps of each person's nature.
		Any of this sutra's key images can serve as a “seed” for beneficial meditation, and indeed acceptance and elucidatory spreading of even one of the nine main metaphors of the "tathagatagarbha" is said to engender enormous blessings.
	www.webspawner.com /users/bodhisattva (1048 words)

	Buddhism in a Nutshell - Chap 50 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sutra of the Collection of the Practices of the Six Perfections (
		Sutra of the Continuation Stream of Emancipation (
		Sutra of Stability in Contemplation of the True Law (
	www.buddhistdoor.com /bdoor/0112/sources/teach50.htm (638 words)

	Myswizard » Buddhism
		Thus the “Sutra of Perfect Awakening” has the Buddha teach that, like gold within its ore, Bodhi is always there within the being’s mind but requires the obscuring mundane ore (the surrounding defilements of samsara and of impaired, unawakened perception) to be removed.
		Similar doctrines are encountered in the Tathagatagarbha sutras, which tell of the immanent presence of the Buddha Principle (Buddha-dhatu/ Buddha-nature) within all beings.
		The sutra states: “There really was no Dharma by means of which the Tathagata attained Supreme Awakening.” This is the truth of the non-heretical sect, with which I identify.
	www.myswizard.com /category/buddhism (13847 words)

	THE NINE METAPHORS
		In similar fashion, the Buddha can really see the tathagatagarbhas of sentient beings, And because he wants to disclose the tathagatagarbha to them, he expounds the sutras and the dharma, in order to destroy klesas and reveal the buddha nature.
		Whether or not buddhas appear in the world, the tathagatagarbhas of all beings are eternal and unchanging.
		Then, when the World-honored One had finished expounding this sutra, Vajramati, together with the four groups of bodhisattvas, the gods, the gandharvas, the asuras, and the rest, rejoiced at what they had heard the Buddha explain, and they practiced it as they had been told.
	www.turtlehill.org /uttara/metaphors.html (3677 words)

	Faith in Buddhiam
		Here it is one's faith in the salvific compassion of the Buddha Amitabha, coupled with one's development of "roots of goodness" and the earnest wish to enter the Buddha's happy land, that is said to bring deliverance into Buddha Amitabha's Western Paradise, the "land of bliss", preparatory to entry into Awakening and Nirvana.
		However, even in these faith-orientated sutras of "Pure Land" Dharma, faith is often linked with understanding (it is not totally "blind faith").
		This interpretation of the "Pure Land" sutras represents perhaps the zenith of faith-orientated Buddhism and remains controversial, although Shinran's school of "Jodo Shinshu" is today perhaps the largest Buddhist sect in Japan.
	www.purifymind.com /FaithinBuddhism.htm (1958 words)

	ArtScope.net: The Buddha Show: 25 Artists Interpret Buddha
		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.
		The lotus is an emblem frequently associated with the Buddha in early sutras -- arising everywhere out of mud and unfolding into exquisite beauty.
		The single awakened bloom among those yet to open strongly suggests the nature of the original Buddha's Awakening, for Buddhism is neither strictly a religion, nor a philosophy, although it readily accommodates those human phenomena: It is a practice toward attaining an awareness, a transcendence within a reality it perceives as illusory.
	www.artscope.net /VAREVIEWS/BuddhaShow1000.shtml (2346 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Buddha Nature - Simply
		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.
		2) the 'tathagatagarbha' is based on the framework of the 'Mahayana'; doctrine of 'sunyata-pratitys-amutpada'.
		Thus it is better to take the 'tathagatagarbha / Buddha nature'; as representing "profound existence" derived from "true emptiness" rather than as a monistic self./.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=5840 (4915 words)

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		In the same manner, kulaputras, when I look at beings with my Buddha vision, I see that the tathagatagarbha is surrounded by a husk of ignorance, just as the seeds of a fruit are only found at its core.
		The mahasattva Bodhisattva Unending Light turned toward the spot where the Buddha was and asked about the ¡®Tathagatagarbha Sutra¡¯, and the Buddha expounded it.
		Then, when the Bhagavan had finished expounding this sutra, Vajramati, together with the four groups of bodhisattvas, the Devas, the Gandharvas, the Asuras and the rest, rejoiced at what they had heard the Buddha explain and they practiced it as they had been told.
	www.e-sangha.com /alphone/0667.html (3207 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > Buddha Nature - Simply
		Jun 21 2004, 11:03 PM To me Tathagatagarbha is simply the nature of mind.
		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."
		In the "HEART SUTRA", it says : "forms is emptiness, emptiness is form; form does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from form".
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t5840.html (11303 words)

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