What is Tathāgatagarbha: Buddha-Nature or Buddha Within?

What is Tathāgatagarbha: Buddha-Nature or Buddha Within?

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This is a special issue of Acta Asiatica devoted to the topic of tathāgatagarbha. It contains articles by Akira Saitō, Kazuo Kano, Michael Zimmermann, Christopher V. Jones, and Masahiro Shimoda.

Citation	Saitō, Akira, ed. "What is Tathāgatagarbha: Buddha-Nature or Buddha Within?" Special Issue, Acta Asiatica 118 (2020).

Table of Contents About the Book Texts Translated Quotes

• SAITŌ Akira: Introductioniii–iv

• SAITŌ Akira: Buddha-Nature or Buddha Within? Revisiting the Meaning
        of Tathāgata-garbha1–15

• KANŌ Kazuo: A Syntactic Analysis of the Term Tathāgatagarbha in
        Sanskrit Fragments and Multiple Meanings of Garbha in the
        Mahāparinirvāṇamahāsūtra 17–40

• Michael ZIMMERMANN: A Multi-associative Term: Why Tathāgatagarbha
        Is Not One and the Same41–55

• Christopher V. JONES: Reconsidering the "Essence" of Indian Buddha-
        Nature Literature57–78

• SHIMODA Masahiro: The Structure of the Soteriology of Tathāgatagarbha
        Thought as Seen from the Perspective of Different Modes of
        Discourse: A Response to Critical Buddhism79–97

• List of Contributors98–100