The Awakening of Faith is a key source text for buddha-nature theory in East Asian Buddhism
The ''Treatise on the Awakening of Faith According to the Mahāyāna'' is an immensely important treatise popular in all traditions of Buddhism in East Asia. It is considered to have been written in China in the middle of the sixth century, heavily influenced by Indian Yogācāra and tathāgatagarbha teachings, providing a scriptural foundation for both buddha-nature theory and the doctrine of original enlightenment. The text synthesized tathāgatagarbha and ālayavijñāna theories to explain how the mind is the source for both enlightenment and ignorance. A relatively short text at just nine pages, it lucidly, if densely, explains important topics such as the nature of mind and consciousness and the threefold bodies of the Buddha, concluding with elegant meditation instructions. Although traditionally said to have been composed by Aśvaghoṣan and translated by Paramārtha, contemporary scholarly consensus has raised doubts about this attribution, and the text's authorship is typically said to be unknown. There is no known Tibetan translation but the text is mentioned three times in Saṃdhigambhīranirmocanasūtratīkā written by the Chinese scholar Wan tshik (རྒྱའི་སློབ་དཔོན་ཝན་ཚིག་གིས་མཛད་པ་ འཕགས་པ་དགོངས་པ་ཟབ་མོ་ངེས་པར་འགྲེལ་བའི་མདོ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ།) and translated by Gö Chödrup.
The Awakening of Faith (2005),The Awakening of Faith (1967),Açvagosha's Discourse on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna,Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith,The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana Doctrine
ཏ་ཤེང་ཅི་ཟིན་ལུང་།(*ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་དད་པ་བསྐྱེད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།)
The Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna;History of buddha-nature in China;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Chinese Buddhism;Actualized Enlightenment;Original Enlightenment;Aśvaghoṣa;རྟ་དབྱངས་;rta dbyangs; Paramārtha;Śikṣānanda;ཏ་ཤེང་ཅི་ཟིན་ལུང་།(*ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་དད་པ་བསྐྱེད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།);Mahāyānaśraddhotpādaśāstra;大乗起信論;ཏ་ཤེང་ཅི་ཟིན་ལུང་(*ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་དད་པ་བསྐྱེད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།)
The ''Treatise on the Awakening of Faith'' was written in China in the middle of the sixth century, heavily influenced by Indian Yogācāra and ''tathāgatagarbha'' teachings. It provides a scriptural foundation for both buddha-nature theory and the doctrine of original enlightenment.
The ''Awakening of Faith'' is a key source text for buddha-nature theory in East Asian Buddhism.
Tathāgatagarbha as the Latent State of Buddhahood that is Obscured in Sentient Beings
ཏ་ཤེང་ཅི་ཟིན་ལུང་ (ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་དད་པ་བསྐྱེད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་)་ནི་དུས་རབས་ ༦ པ་ཙམ་ལ་སློབ་དཔོན་རྟ་དབྱངས་ཀྱིས་མཛད་པར་གྲགས་ཤིང་དུས་རབས་དེ་ཙམ་ན་སློབ་དཔོན་དོན་དམ་པས་ཐོག་མར་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་སྐད་དུ་བསྒྱུར་ནས་དར་ཁྱབ་ཆེར་བྱུང་པའི་རྒྱ་ནག་ལ་དར་བའི་གཞུང་ཞིག་སྟེ། ཕྱིས་སུ་སློབ་དཔོན་བསླབ་པ་དགའ་བས་ཀྱང་བསྒྱུར་ཞིང་། འདིའི་བསྟན་དོན་སྡེ་ཚན་ལྔའི་ཁོངས་སུ་སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་གཉིས་མེད་གནས་ཚུལ་དག་པ་དོན་དམ་པ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་དང་། དེ་ལས་མ་དག་པ་འཁྲུལ་པའི་སྣང་ཚུལ་ཀུན་གཞི་བྱུང་བ་དང་། འཁོར་འདས་དང་ཀུན་ཉོན་དང་རྣམ་བྱང་གི་ཚུལ་་དང་། དད་པའི་སྒོ་ནས་ཞི་ལྷག་ཟུང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ལམ་སྒྲུབ་ཚུལ་དང་། ལམ་གྱི་འབྲས་བུ་རྣམས་བཤད་ཡོད་ཅིང་། ཡེ་སངས་རྒྱས་པའི་རྣམ་གཞག་གསལ་ཡོད་པའི་གཞུང་འདི་རྒྱ་ནག་ནས་བརྒྱུད་པའི་ནང་བསྟན་གྱི་ཆོས་ལུགས་རྣམས་ལ་རྩ་ཆེར་འཛིན་ཅིང་འཆད་ཉན་དང་འགྲེལ་པ་ཡང་་མང་དུ་ཡོད་པ་ཡིན། གཞུང་འདི་བོད་སྐད་དུ་འགྱུར་མེད་པར་སྣང་ཡང་། རྒྱའི་སློབ་དཔོན་ཝན་ཚིག་གིས་མཛད་པ་ འཕགས་པ་དགོངས་པ་ཟབ་མོ་ངེས་པར་འགྲེལ་བའི་མདོ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ། ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་འགོས་ཆོས་གྲུབ་ཀྱིས་བསྒྱུར་བ་དེར་གཞུང་འདི་ལན་གསུམ་དྲངས་ཡོད།
ཏ་ཤེང་ཅི་ཟིན་ལུང་(*ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་དད་པ་བསྐྱེད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།)
Treatise on the Awakening of Faith;大乗起信論;Dasheng qixin lun;Mahāyānaśraddhotpādaśāstra;ཏ་ཤེང་ཅི་ཟིན་ལུང་།(*ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་དད་པ་བསྐྱེད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།);The Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna;Texts/Dasheng qixin lun
The Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna;Dasheng qixin lun;大乗起信論;Mahāyānaśraddhotpādaśāstra;ཏ་ཤེང་ཅི་ཟིན་ལུང་།(*ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་དད་པ་བསྐྱེད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།)
History of buddha-nature in China
The doctrine of buddha-nature in Chinese Buddhism
Actualized Enlightenment
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Original Enlightenment
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