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Description from When the Clouds Part
Zimmermann (2002) says that two in a series of examples in the Mahāmeghasūtra[1] closely resemble those in the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra. The examples compare the state of not living according to the teachings and of not entering into a certain samādhi to (1) winter rice and so on, which have not yet fulfilled their nature of benefitting beings and (2) the fruits of a palmyra palm, a mango tree, and cane (the same enumeration as in the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra), which have not yet become such trees. Though the thrust of the examples in the Mahāmeghasūtra differs from those in the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra, the examples themselves clearly echo basic ele- ments of the latter sūtra. Also, one of the bodhisattvas in the audience has the name Tathāgatagarbha. However, apart from these features, this sūtra shows no elements of tathāgatagarbha teachings. (p. 46)
- D232, D235, D657, D1063 (all thirteen folios) and Taishō 387–88, 989 (990), and 993.
