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- Articles/The Yogācārā and Mādhyamika Interpretations of the Buddha-nature Concept in Chinese Buddhism + (The idea of Buddha-nature was first made p … The idea of Buddha-nature was first made popular in China in the early fifth century with the translation of the Mahāyāna ''Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra'' (hereafter cited as ''MNS''),'"`UNIQ--ref-00000EA7-QINU`"' and since then, it has remained one of the central themes of Chinese Buddhist thought. Already in the fifth and early sixth centuries, a wide variety of theories on the Buddha-nature had begun to appear, but extant information about them remains scanty and scattered.'"`UNIQ--ref-00000EA8-QINU`"' It is in the writings of Ching-ying Hui-yüan (523–592),'"`UNIQ--ref-00000EA9-QINU`"' the Yogācārin, and in Chi-tsang (549–623), the Mādhyamika, that we find the earliest available full-scale treatments of the subject. Hui-yüan and Chi-tsang hold a number of views in common with respect to the question of Buddha -nature:<br></br></br>'"`UNIQ--poem-00000EAD-QINU`"'</br>Nevertheless, given their very different theoretical upbringings and doctrinal affiliations, it is inevitable that they would carry to their explanations of the Buddha-nature concept some of the basic principles and assumptions of their respective philosophical traditions. In examining and comparing the Buddha-nature teachings of Hui-yüan and Chi-tsang our present study attempts to show how the Buddha-nature concept has come to assume divergent significances when read in the context of the two main streams of thought in Mahāyāna Buddhism: Yogācāra and Mādhyamika. (Liu, "The Yogācāra and Mādhyamika Interpretations of the Buddha-nature Concept in Chinese Buddhism," 171)Buddha-nature Concept in Chinese Buddhism," 171))
