Difference between revisions of "Buddha-Nature Timeline"
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− | |description=''[[Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra]]'' (which [[Michael Radich]] dates as early as the 2nd century) mentions ''tathāgathagarbha'' and uses the term ''ātman'' to describe buddha-nature. | + | |description=མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ་ལས་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་གསུངས་ཤིང་ བདག་གི་ཚིག་ཀྱང་བྱུང་། |
+ | ''[[Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra]]'' (which [[Michael Radich]] dates as early as the 2nd century) mentions ''tathāgathagarbha'' and uses the term ''ātman'' to describe buddha-nature. | ||
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|date=c. 200 CE | |date=c. 200 CE | ||
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− | |description=''[[Tathāgatagarbhasūtra]]'' (as dated by [[Michael Zimmermann]]) and other scriptures later considered as sūtras teaching ''tathāgathagarbha'' are circulating and promoting the concept of buddha-nature. | + | |description=དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོའི་མདོ་དང་། གཤེགས་སྙིང་བསྟན་པའི་མདོ་གཞན་རྣམས་ཀྱང་དར་ཞིང་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཁམས་བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོའི་ཐ་སྙད་རྒྱ་ཆེར་སྤེལ། |
+ | ''[[Tathāgatagarbhasūtra]]'' (as dated by [[Michael Zimmermann]]) and other scriptures later considered as sūtras teaching ''tathāgathagarbha'' are circulating and promoting the concept of buddha-nature. | ||
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− | |description=[[Nāgārjuna]] writes the ''[[Dharmadhātustava]]'' and praises the sphere of reality as the basis of ''saṃsāra'' and ''nirvāṇa''. He calls it "the element" and "luminous mind" and claims emptiness does not negate this nature. | + | |description=སློབ་དཔོན་ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་ནས་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་བསྟོད་པ་སོགས་བསྟོད་ཚོགས་བརྩམས་ནས་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་རིགས་འཁོར་འདས་ཀྱི་གཞི་ཡིན་པ་དང་ ཁམས་དང་འོད་གསལ་བའི་སེམས་སོགས་ཐ་སྙད་བྱུང་ཞིང་། སྟོང་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་ཁམས་དེ་མི་བཀག་པར་གསུངས། |
+ | [[Nāgārjuna]] writes the ''[[Dharmadhātustava]]'' and praises the sphere of reality as the basis of ''saṃsāra'' and ''nirvāṇa''. He calls it "the element" and "luminous mind" and claims emptiness does not negate this nature. | ||
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|date=c. 300 CE | |date=c. 300 CE | ||
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− | |description=''[[Tathāgatagarbhasūtra]]'' is translated into Chinese, perhaps by [[Faju]]. | + | |description=དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོའི་མདོ་རྒྱ་ནག་སྐད་དུ་འགྱུར། |
+ | ''[[Tathāgatagarbhasūtra]]'' is translated into Chinese, perhaps by [[Faju]]. | ||
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|date=c. 320 CE | |date=c. 320 CE | ||
− | |description=''[[Śrīmālādevīsiṃhanādanirdeśa]]'' (which may have been circulating as one of the most influential sūtras on buddha-nature) is said to have been translated into Chinese by Seng Fani. It claims buddha-nature "is empty of adventitious stains but not empty of its limitless inseparable qualities." | + | |description=ལྷ་མོ་དཔལ་ཕྲེང་གི་མདོ་དར་ཁྱབ་ཆེར་འགྱུར་ཡོད་པ་དེ་རྒྱ་སྐད་ལ་འགྱུར། བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོ་གློ་བུར་ཉོན་མོངས་པས་སྟོང་ཡང་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཡོན་ཏན་གྱིས་མི་སྟོང་་པར་གསུངས། ''[[Śrīmālādevīsiṃhanādanirdeśa]]'' (which may have been circulating as one of the most influential sūtras on buddha-nature) is said to have been translated into Chinese by Seng Fani. It claims buddha-nature "is empty of adventitious stains but not empty of its limitless inseparable qualities." |
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|date=By 400 CE | |date=By 400 CE | ||
− | |description=''[[Mahābherīsūtra]]'' (which was translated into Chinese by [[Guṇabhadra]]) equates buddha-nature with the ''dharmakāya''. ''[[Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśaparivarta]]'' (which [[Jonathan Silk]] dates to at least before the early 5th century) mentions how sentient beings, bodhisattvas, and buddhas are three phases of the buddha-nature being impure, partially obscured, and fully pure. | + | |description=རྔ་བོ་་ཆེའི་མདོ་རྒྱ་སྐད་དུ་གྱུར་བ་དང་། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ལ་ཆོས་སྐུའི་ཐ་སྙད་བཏགས་པ་དང་། འཕེལ་འགྲིབ་མེད་པའི་མདོ་ལས་སེམས་ཅན་བྱང་སེམས་དང་སངས་རྒྱས་གནས་སྐབས་གསུམ་གསུངས། |
+ | ''[[Mahābherīsūtra]]'' (which was translated into Chinese by [[Guṇabhadra]]) equates buddha-nature with the ''dharmakāya''. ''[[Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśaparivarta]]'' (which [[Jonathan Silk]] dates to at least before the early 5th century) mentions how sentient beings, bodhisattvas, and buddhas are three phases of the buddha-nature being impure, partially obscured, and fully pure. | ||
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