Kazuo Kano at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium

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Kazuo Kano at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium
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Kazuo Kano discusses the term tathāgatagarbha and its appearance in tantric scriptures and commentaries composed by Indic authors and shows how and for what purposes this term has been integrated into tantric contexts. In terms of precursors to the tantric usages, he notes mentions such as that found in the Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra, in which practitioners are taught to think of themselves as a stūpa—that is, a reliquary that contains a buddha within it and as such are objects of worship. As for Indian authors, he discusses the views of Ratnākaraśānti as representative of the Yogācāra school and the notion of the three vehicles (triyāna), and he discusses Abhayākaragupta as representative of the Madhyamaka school and the notion of a single vehicle (ekayāna). Some brief mention is also made of Kamalaśīla, who represents a synthesis of the two schools.

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Kamalaśīla
713/740 ~ 763/795
Abhayākaragupta
11th century ~ circa 1125
Ratnākaraśānti
late-10th century ~ early-11th century
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