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From Buddha-Nature
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Yes, but only based on the indivisibility of suchness. In other words, buddhas and sentient beings are the same in their ultimate nature. +
"Gyeltsap thus shows that ultimately both buddhas and sentient beings share the same suchness of mind which is the ultimate nature of mind that is free from natural defilements. Because of this he argues that all sentient beings have tathāgata-essence, and it is through this that he establishes the connection between tathāgata-essence and the concept of one-vehicle, the notion that ultimately there is only the final goal of buddhahood." +
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. +
