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php/Articles/A_History_of_Buddha-Nature_Theory:_The_Literature_and_Traditions. Gardner, Alex. "A History of Buddha-Nature Theory: The Literature and Traditions

"gzhan stong pas", and the Beginning of Tibetan gzhan stong;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Indian Buddhism;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan Buddhism;History

php/Articles/A_History_of_Buddha-Nature_Theory:_The_Literature_and_Traditions. Gardner, Alex. "A History of Buddha-Nature Theory: The Literature and Traditions

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Article A History of Buddha-Nature Theory: The Literature and Traditions A lengthy historical survey of buddha-nature theory through the literature and traditions

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https://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php/Articles/A_History_of_Buddha-Nature_Theory:_The_Literature_and_Traditions. Buddha-nature theory, the idea that all beings possess

php/Articles/A_History_of_Buddha-Nature_Theory:_The_Literature_and_Traditions. Gardner, Alex. "A History of Buddha-Nature Theory: The Literature and Traditions

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php/Articles/A_History_of_Buddha-Nature_Theory:_The_Literature_and_Traditions. Gardner, Alex. "A History of Buddha-Nature Theory: The Literature and Traditions

Tathāgatagarbha and Ātman. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2020.;The Buddhist Self;History of buddha-nature in India;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Early

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divided into the following principal parts: —       I. The Life of the Buddha Çākyamuni, the narrative of the so-called 12 Acts of the Buddha (mdzad-pa bcu-gñis)

php/Articles/A_History_of_Buddha-Nature_Theory:_The_Literature_and_Traditions. Gardner, Alex. "A History of Buddha-Nature Theory: The Literature and Traditions

php/Articles/A_History_of_Buddha-Nature_Theory:_The_Literature_and_Traditions. Gardner, Alex. "A History of Buddha-Nature Theory: The Literature and Traditions

Zimmermann,2002.pdf.;A Buddha Within: The Tathāgatagarbhasūtra;Tathāgatagarbhasūtra;History of buddha-nature in India;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Indian B

php/Articles/A_History_of_Buddha-Nature_Theory:_The_Literature_and_Traditions. Gardner, Alex. "A History of Buddha-Nature Theory: The Literature and Traditions

Article A History of Buddha-Nature Theory: The Literature and Traditions A lengthy historical survey of buddha-nature theory through the literature and traditions

Zimmermann,2002.pdf.;A Buddha Within: The Tathāgatagarbhasūtra;Tathāgatagarbhasūtra;History of buddha-nature in India;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Indian B

includes the icchantikas in the universality of the Buddha-nature. Daosheng's bold doctrine of including icchantikas within the purview of the Buddha-nature

2016.;Buddha-Nature and Emptiness;Buddha-nature as Emptiness;History;History of buddha-nature in Tibet;Madhyamaka;Ngok Tradition;Textual study;The doctrine

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php/Articles/A_History_of_Buddha-Nature_Theory:_The_Literature_and_Traditions. Gardner, Alex. "A History of Buddha-Nature Theory: The Literature and Traditions

Publishing Company, 2007.;Buddha Nature and Animality;Doctrine;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Japanese Buddhism;Zen - Chan;Buddha Nature and Animality Book Critical

versions. The Chinese tradition attributes the text to *Sāramati (娑囉末底), but the translation itself does not include the name of the author, and the matter

This is the most complete bibliography of academic and related references on the concept of buddha-nature and the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra and its commentaries

2016.;Buddha-Nature and Emptiness;Buddha-nature as Emptiness;History;History of buddha-nature in Tibet;Madhyamaka;Ngok Tradition;Textual study;The doctrine

2016.;Buddha-Nature and Emptiness;Buddha-nature as Emptiness;History;History of buddha-nature in Tibet;Madhyamaka;Ngok Tradition;Textual study;The doctrine

Zimmermann,2002.pdf.;A Buddha Within: The Tathāgatagarbhasūtra;Tathāgatagarbhasūtra;History of buddha-nature in India;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Indian B

regarding the nature of enlightenment, reality, and the Path. This page introduces some of the key questions in buddha-nature theory, framed in terms of binaries

Publishing Company, 2007.;Buddha Nature and Animality;Doctrine;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Japanese Buddhism;Zen - Chan;Buddha Nature and Animality Book Buddhist

Dorji. "Buddha by Nature or Buddha by Nurture: Deliberations on the Buddha-Nature Theory in the Nyingma Tradition." Conversations on Buddha-Nature with Lopen

China and Tibet;Zen - Chan;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Indian Buddhism;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Chinese Buddhism;Early Ch'an in China and Tibet

2016.;Buddha-Nature and Emptiness;Buddha-nature as Emptiness;History;History of buddha-nature in Tibet;Madhyamaka;Ngok Tradition;Textual study;The doctrine

of ancient India, the importance of buddha-nature became evermore pronounced. In East Asian and Tibetan Buddhism, buddha-nature came to be a major keystone

2021). He is also a regular contributor to the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, and is the co-editor of the Vienna Series for

php/Articles/Introduction_to_the_Traditions_of_Ngok_and_Tsen. Ostensen, Morten. "Introduction to the Traditions of Ngok and Tsen." Buddha-Nature: A Tsadra

India;History of buddha-nature in China;Jikido Takasaki; A Study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra): Being a Treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha Theory of Mahāyāna

committed to the paradoxical claim that emptiness is the lack of intrinsic nature and that it is the intrinsic nature of all things, on the ground that the apparently

Dorji. "Buddha by Nature or Buddha by Nurture: Deliberations on the Buddha-Nature Theory in the Nyingma Tradition." Conversations on Buddha-Nature with Lopen

2 Notes 6 About the text 7 Authorship and Editions 8 Translations Topics History of buddha-nature in China The doctrine of buddha-nature in Chinese Buddhism

2016.;Buddha-Nature and Emptiness;Buddha-nature as Emptiness;History;History of buddha-nature in Tibet;Madhyamaka;Ngok Tradition;Textual study;The doctrine

ring the Way of the Great Vehicle: Dzogchen as the Culmination of the Mahāyāna;Rong zom chos kyi bzang po Book Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind Longchenpa’s

aspects of the text to the as of yet still mysterious figure of Sāramati, the Tibetan tradition attributes the treatise to the Bodhisattva Maitreya and this

Negation: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices The Tathāgatagarbha theory, also known as the Buddha-nature theory

Negation: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices The Tathāgatagarbha theory, also known as the Buddha-nature theory

Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices The Tathāgatagarbha theory, also known as the Buddha-nature theory, is one of the most influential

Differentiation of the Three Codes;Sakya;Rangtong;History of buddha-nature in Tibet;Sdom gsum rab dbye;Debate(s); A Clear Differentiation of the Three Codes:

of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices The Tathāgatagarbha theory, also known as the Buddha-nature theory, is one of the

uk/discovering-the-buddha-within-curriculum Event བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོའི་ཆོས་འཁོར།: The Buddha-Nature Conference This event is finished and the website will

;Buddhism and Nature—East Asian;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Chinese Buddhism;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Japanese Buddhism;Buddha-nature of insentient

Negation: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices The Tathāgatagarbha theory, also known as the Buddha-nature theory

essentially of nirvāṇa, and have the lack of own-being as their nature-the Lord has turned the Wheel of the Law which is characterized [this time] by a manifest

Book The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows With its emphasis on the concept of buddha-nature, or the ultimate nature of mind, the Uttaratantra is a classical

"gzhan stong pas", and the Beginning of Tibetan gzhan stong;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Indian Buddhism;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan Buddhism;History

doctrine of buddha-nature in Indian Buddhism;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Chinese Buddhism;Early Ch'an in China and Tibet Article Indian Materials on the

Enlightenment.pdf.;Sudden and Gradual;History of buddha-nature in China;Terminology;Debate(s);The doctrine of buddha-nature in Chinese Buddhism;Tien T

Faith in Mahāyāna;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Chinese Buddhism;History of buddha-nature in China;Dasheng qixin lun;Peter Gregory;&nbsp Zongmi: Inquiry

de/2up.;Plants in Early Buddhism and the Far Eastern Idea of the Buddha-Nature of Grasses and Trees;Buddha-nature of insentient things;Lambert Schmithausen;Plants

thought and practice. The Tien-tai favor the more philosophical scriptures, the Shingon, the more esoteric, the Ch’an (Zen), the more intellectual, and the Pure

awakening—or buddha-nature—is inherent within all of us and waiting to be realized. Buddha-nature has the qualities of both silence and illumination, and by working

Negation: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices The Tathāgatagarbha theory, also known as the Buddha-nature theory

1997.;Pruning the Bodhi Tree;Defining buddha-nature;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Early Buddhism;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Japanese Buddhism

(684–762), the patriarch of two of the earliest schools of Ch’an; the work of a dozen or so Korean monks active in the Chinese T’ient’ai tradition; and the Huiyin

collection includes a history of buddha-nature theory in Tibet by Thupten Jinpa and seven texts influential in the development of buddha-nature teachings in Tibet

sets forth the theory and practice of the Great Madhyamaka of other-emptiness, centered upon the doctrine of Buddha-nature. The Instruction on the View largely

University of Virginia, 2005.;Buddha-Nature and a Dialectic of Presence and Absence in the Works of Mi-pham;Nyingma;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan

edu/duckworth/files/2016/01/logic-of-pantheism.pdf.;Buddha-Nature and the Logic of Pantheism;History of buddha-nature in India;History of buddha-nature in Tibet;tathāga

examination of the nature of the Absolute or enlightenment and of the phenomenal world or nonenlightenment and discusses the relationships that exist between them;

Shenhui 荷澤神會 (670-762), one of the architects of the Southern School of Chan, as an example of the early Chan advocacy of buddha-nature doctrine.       This article

are without buddha-nature, (4) the two phases of buddha-nature are contradictory, and (5) buddha-nature is the truly existent intrinsic nature. Khenpo further

Excursion by Peter Skilling;Buddha-nature as Luminosity;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Early Buddhism;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Theravadin Buddhism

be considered the main introduction of the buddha-nature theory to Tibet via the Ratnagotravibhāga, the Nyingma have their own history of engagement with

Our Buddha-Nature What Then? What is Buddha-Nature? What is Buddha-Nature? The Questions The History The Texts The Traditions The People Explore more

Topics/History of buddha-nature in Tibet, Topics/History of buddha-nature in China, Topics/History of buddha-nature in India, Topics/History of buddha-nature

understanding of the TG theory, particularly that of the dGe-lugs-pa tradition. A number of studies devoted to the TG theory from the perspective of the exponents

Topics Dzogchen Terminology History of buddha-nature in Tibet The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan Buddhism bodhigarbha Email us to contribute Site Guide

scriptures such as the Prajñāpāramitā and the Lotus Sūtra. For its time it was a remarkable accomplishment. The discussion of buddha-nature in the Laṅkāvatāra

essentially of nirvāṇa, and have the lack of own-being as their nature-the Lord has turned the Wheel of the Law which is characterized [this time] by a manifest

v=YEwPclJGvF8.;A Dilettante's Ramblings on the Uttaratantra, Asaṅga, Mipham, and Buddha-Nature by John Canti;Buddha-nature as Luminosity;Buddha-nature as Empt

Nirvāṇa, and Buddha Nature;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Theravadin Buddhism;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan Buddhism;Defining buddha-nature;Doc

sprul;Maitreya;Asaṅga Book Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra All sentient beings, without exception, have buddha nature, the inherent purity and perfection

between the eighth and fourteenth centuries. This philosophy developed around a nexus of core soteriological ideas concerning buddha-nature, the nature of reality

associated with the “founders” of this tradition—the masters associated with the nascent (or proto-) Chan lineages of the seventh and eighth centuries. It was

of mind, the notion of inherent radiance, the alien nature of the defilements that contaminate the mind, and the interplay of the image of purification

Definitive Nature of the Buddha-Nature Teachings;Provisional or definitive;Anne Burchardi: On the Provisional or Definitive Nature of the Buddha-Nature Teachings

also called the buddha-nature. Audio The Cloudless Sky of Buddha-Nature Rev. Kokyo Henkel teaches on "The Cloudless Sky of Buddha Nature" at the San Francisco

Rosary, Tsongkhapa presents three theories on the nature of the spiritual gene. The first theory of the spiritual gene is of the śrāvaka (ཉན་ཐོས་) disciples

ion for the Moment of Death Text Kyotön Mönlam Tsultrim: The Meaning of the Essence of Luminosity A Kadam work on luminosity and buddha-nature. 'od gsal

pdf;A Comparison of the Concepts of Buddha-Nature and Dao-Nature of Medieval China;History of buddha-nature in China;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Chinese

Publishing Company, 2007.;Buddha Nature and Animality;Doctrine;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Japanese Buddhism;Zen - Chan;Buddha Nature and Animality Book Buddhist

IV A Gathering of Brilliant Moons A Gathering of Brilliant Moons Book II Articles/A History of Buddha-Nature Theory: The Literature and Traditions A History

with the aim of refuting what he believed to be the wrongly held view that Rong-zom-pa denied the existence of gnosis at the stage of a buddha. Any denial

Zimmermann, Michael. A Buddha Within: The Tathāgatagarbhasūtra; The Earliest Exposition of the Buddha-Nature Teaching in India. Biblotheca Philologica et Philosophica

there was a great surge of interest, at least among the intellectuals, in the various translations of the Prajna Sutras. And most of the students of these

accepts the nature of all things to be enlightened, and he argues that 'sentient beings are the base of all buddhas because they possess buddha-nature'(རྒ

Exegetical Traditions The doctrine of buddha-nature is found in all Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions. The theory developed in India in the first centuries of the

;Reconsidering the "Essence" of Indian Buddha-Nature Literature;Reconsidering the "Essence" of Indian Buddha-Nature Literature;History of buddha-nature in India;Sentient

doctrine of buddha-nature in Early Buddhism;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Indian Buddhism;tathāgatagarbha;William Grosnick;&nbsp Book Buddha Nature: A Festschrift

lun;Buddha-nature as Self - Atman;ātman;tathāgatagarbha;Zen - Chan;Metaphors for buddha-nature;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Chinese Buddhism;The doctrine

Contemporary Theories in the Study of Religion in the History of Religions program, and Introduction to the Philosophies of India in Philosophy of Religions

Chungtsang, 1st;Rin chen byang chub;History of buddha-nature in Tibet;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan Buddhism;Buddha-nature as Emptiness;Ordinary Mind;ekayāna;Katrin

Tibetan traditions. Buddha-nature is taught in a wide range of scriptures, both those said to be the word of the Buddha and commentaries by Indian, Chinese, and

Languages and Literature and the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia, was the first and only course of its kind taught in a university setting in the

supporter of Buddhism in America and the proponent of the "religion of science": a faith that claimed to be purified of all superstition and irrationality

with points of controversy, and among these some of the most controversial have to do with the theory of Buddha Nature. Hence, much of the material that

Life of the Buddha Çākyamuni, the narrative of the so-called 12 Acts of the Buddha (mdzad-pa bcu-gñis), or rather of the 12 principal events in his life. The

Wangchuk at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium;Rong zom chos kyi bzang po;Nyingma;History of buddha-nature in Tibet;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan

be? Is the concept of the Buddha nature an outcome of the influence of other Indian religious thought upon Buddhism? It is out of the scope of this short

such as the nature of mind and consciousness and the threefold bodies of the Buddha, concluding with elegant meditation instructions. The Awakening of Faith

Life of the Buddha Çākyamuni, the narrative of the so-called 12 Acts of the Buddha (mdzad-pa bcu-gñis), or rather of the 12 principal events in his life. The

Press, 2017.;The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows;Uttaratantra;History of buddha-nature in Tibet;Debates / Debate;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan

tion_to_Dzogchen_and_Buddha-nature. Ostensen, Morten. "Introduction to Dzogchen and Buddha-Nature." Buddha-Nature: A Tsadra Foundation Initiative, July

require the act of entering a monastery.       Of the two prerequisites for the realization of the truth, sitting in meditation is left to the individual

José Ignacio. "The Canonization of Philosophy and the Rhetoric of Siddhānta in Tibetan Buddhism." In Buddha Nature: A Festschrift in Honor of Minoru Kiyota

Consciousness-only (唯識). The force of his own study, translation and commentary of the texts of these traditions initiated the development of the Faxiang school

express the Truth as he understood it. In Dōgen, the process of the search for and realization of the Buddha Dharma and the speculation on and expression

medieval Japanese Buddhism, and the debates over the nature and identity of Buddha-nature thought in the modern intellectual movement called “Critical Buddhism

Slide The History Slide The Texts Slide The Traditions Slide The People Slide What is Buddha-Nature? All Buddhist traditions claim that the nature of our

describe buddha-nature: a golden statue encased in muck and the seed of a mango tree. The first suggests that our buddha-nature is already perfect and only

David Seyfort, "The Meanings of the Term 'Gotra' and the Textual History of the 'Ratnagotravibhāga'." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Library and the preeminent scholar of modern Tibetan literature working today. Gendun Rabsel is author of an important history of Tibetan literature and an