Image-likeness and the Tathāgatagarbha: A Reading of William of St. Thierry's Golden Epistle and the Ratnagotravibhāga

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Lua error in Module:GetMediaValue at line 1: Module:MediaData returned boolean, table expected.
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Lua error in Module:GetMediaValue at line 1: Module:MediaData returned boolean, table expected.


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enlightened qualities), Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is an Implicative Negation (with enlightened qualities), Tathāgatagarbha as the Latent State of Buddhahood that is Obscured in Sentient Beings, Tathāgatagarbha was Taught Merely to Encourage Sentient Beings to Enter the Path) of allowed values for the "PosEmptyLumin" property.</li> <!--br--><li>"Lua error in Module:GetMediaValue at line 1: Module:MediaData returned boolean, table expected." is not in the list (Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་), Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་)) of allowed values for the "PosSvataPrasa" property.</li> <!--br--><li>Property "BuNayPublisher" (as page type) with input value "Lua error in Module:GetMediaValue at line 1: Module:MediaData returned boolean, table expected." contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.</li> <!--br--><li>Property "BuNayTopicTags" (as page type) with input value "Lua error in Module:GetMediaValue at line 1: 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  1. Augustine Confessions 10.8. I am using the translation of J. G. Pilkington as given in W. J. Oates, ed., Basic Writings of Saint Augustine, 1 (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1980), p. 154. For the Latin text I am following St. Augustine's Confessions, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979). Augustine travelled much by land, but only twice by sea. On Augustine as traveller, see O. Perler. Les Voyages de Saint Augustin (Paris: Etudes Augustiniennes, 1969), especially pp. 25–81.
  2. The literature on Augustine and memoria is voluminous. For three significant accounts, see R. Javelet, Image et Ressemblance au Douxième Siecle: De Saint Anselme à Alain de Lille (Editions Letouzey & Ané, 1967). vol. 1, pp. 56–63 and accompanying notes in vol. 2; J. Burnaby, Amor Dei: A Study of the Religion of St. Augustine (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938), pp. 155 ff; J. M. Le Blond, Les Conversions de Saint Augustin (Paris: Aubier, 1950), pp. 23–49.
  3. There is a very helpful discussion of some of the most basic differences between Christianity and Buddhism in chapt. 1, "Concerning the Christian Understanding of Buddhism," of W. L. King, Buddhism and Christianity: Some Bridges of Understanding (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1962), pp. 13–33. Although King writes primarily about the Theravada tradition, much of what he says is applicable to the Mahayana as well.