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- People/Bu ston rin chen grub + (Only Buddhas)
- People/Sgra tshad pa rin chen rnam rgyal + (Only Buddhas)
- People/Rong ston shes bya kun rig + (Sentient beings are endowed with the naturally abiding gotra, but not the dharmakāya.)
- Texts/Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos legs par bshad pa + (Sentient beings are endowed with the naturally abiding gotra, but not the dharmakāya.)
- People/Jayānanda + (Since he equates the teachings on buddha-nature as an expedient way to teach emptiness, all beings have it because emptiness is pervasive.)
- People/Sa skya paN+Di ta + (There is some discrepancy between Sapen's … There is some discrepancy between Sapen's use of the term tathāgata-essence and buddha-nature and other thinkers that use these terms synonymously. In Sapen's view, sentient beings do not possess the former, but do possess a more general form of the latter. So while the answer is a qualified "no" in terms of the more general debate on this issue and the way others have addressed it and asserted Sapen's position, strictly speaking from Sapen's view the answer could more accurately be a qualified "yes" as he does state all beings have a basic "inherent" buddha-nature, though this does not correspond to an essence that is endowed with enlightened qualities. The tricky issue being the equivalency of these terms tathāgata-essence and buddha-nature and the perception of the Sakya position by later authors.on of the Sakya position by later authors.)
- Texts/Theg chen rgyud bla ma'i don bsdus pa + (Yes, but only based on the indivisibility of suchness. In other words, buddhas and sentient beings are the same in their ultimate nature.)
- Texts/Phyag rgya chen po'i shan 'byed ces bya ba'i bstan bcos + (Śākya Chokden's general position is that only those beings on the Bodhisattva stage level and above have buddha-nature.)
- Texts/Phyag rgya chen po gsal bar byed pa'i bstan bcos tshangs pa'i 'khor los gzhan blo'i dregs pa nyams byed + (Śākya Chokden's general position is that only those beings on the Bodhisattva stage level and above have buddha-nature but equating Buddha-Nature with Mahāmudrā, he seems to accept all beings have Buddha-Nature in this text.)
- Texts/Lung rigs gnyis kyis phyag rgya chen po'i bzhed tshul la 'khrul pa sel ba'i bstan bcos zung 'jug gru chen + (Śākya Chokden's general position, although no explicit in this text, is that only those beings on the Bodhisattva stage level and above have buddha-nature.)
