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*"Taking the reverse position of the Gelugpas on this, both Butön and his student and commentator Dratsépa Rinchen Namgyal (1318–1388) identify the actual tathāgata heart as being solely the final fruition of buddhahood. As the latter says: The fully qualified sugata heart is the dharmakāya of a perfect buddha but never exists in the great mass of sentient beings." [[Brunnhölzl, K.]], [[When the Clouds Part]], pp. 67-68.
*Bu-ston and his disciple sGra-tshad-pa assert that Buddha-nature should be understood only in its resultant aspect, namely as only the dharmakäya of a buddha." [[Kano, K.]], [[Buddha-Nature and Emptiness]], p. 343.
*See also [[Wangchuk, Tsering]], [[The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows]], p. 73.
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#"Though everyone including ordinary beings possesses wisdom in a nonmanifest manner, only bodhisattvas on the first bhūmi onward manifest this wisdom as the direct realization of ultimate reality. This means that only such bodhisattvas possess the actual tathāgata heart in that they see at least certain degrees of purification of the stains that cover the tathāgata heart as well as its inseparability from certain degrees of buddha qualities. Ordinary beings thus do not possess this actual tathāgata heart at all, while buddhas possess it in its completeness. In other words, the close connection between seeing the tathāgata heart free from adventitious stains and possessing it, as well as between becoming free from adventitious stains and “attaining” the qualities of a buddha, is a prominent feature of Śākya Chogden’s interpretation of tathāgatagarbha." [[Brunnhölzl, K.]], ''[[When the Clouds Part]]'', p. 78.
#See also [[Wangchuk, Tsering]], ''[[The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows]]'', p. 114.
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"Gyelsé Tokmé equates the naturally purified dharma-body with the tathāgata-essence by arguing that it is precisely because the latter exists in all beings that one can claim that the former exists in all beings also. However, unlike Dölpopa, he never explicitly says in his commentary that sentient beings have a fully enlightened buddha within." [[Wangchuk, Tsering]], ''[[The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows]]'', p. 62. +
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"Sazang also demonstrates that both tathāgata-essence and its attendant enlightened qualities exist inherently and permanently in the nature of all living beings. [[Wangchuk, Tsering]], ''[[The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows]]'', p. 58. +
He states: "The buddha-element, at the stage of complete purification, exists in the same way as it existed previously at the stage of impurity." Translated in [[Wangchuk, Tsering]] ''[[The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows]]'', p. 62. +
Wangchuk, Tsering, ''[[The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows]]'', p. 99. +
