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- Articles/A History of Buddha-Nature Theory: The Literature and Traditions + (Buddha-nature theory, the idea that all be … Buddha-nature theory, the idea that all beings possess in some way the potential for enlightenment, is found in all Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions. First appearing in India around the third or fourth century CE, it spread to China beginning in the fifth century with the translation of the ''Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra'' and other buddha-nature scriptures, where it inspired the concept of original enlightenment, most famously articulated in the ''Awakening of Faith''. Tibetans received the teaching first in the eighth century with the translations of the sūtras, but it only began to have an impact in the eleventh century with the translation of the ''Ratnagotravibhāga''. Conforming to neither Madhyamaka nor Yogācāra, buddha-nature has been incorporated somewhat uneasily into both, although as a positivistic theory of reality it has been more easily accepted by Yogācārin traditions.e easily accepted by Yogācārin traditions.)
