Tathāgatagarbhasūtra

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तथागतगर्भसूत्र
Tathāgatagarbhasūtra
འཕགས་པ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
'phags pa de bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo
The Sūtra on the Tathāgata Essence (84000)
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Description

The Tathāgatagarbhasūtra (TGS) is a relatively short text that represents the starting point of a number of works in Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism centering around the idea that all living beings have the buddha-nature. The genesis of the term tathāgatagarbha (in Tibetan de bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po, in Chinese rulai zang 如來藏, the key term of this strand of Buddhism and the title of the sūtra), can be observed in the textual history of the TGS. (Zimmermann, A Buddha Within: The Tathāgatagarbhasūtra, p. 7)


Full translations

 
A Buddha Within: The Tathāgatagarbhasūtra
A comprehensive edition of the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra (TGS) and an annotated English translation based on Tibetan materials, by Michael Zimmermann.
Book
 
Affirmation in Negation: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices
This dissertation by Shu-hui Jennifer Chen contains a study of the Tathāgatagarbha theory and a translation of the text (T666).
Dissertation
 
Le Soutra de l'essence de Tathāgata
A French translation of the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra from the Tibetan by Marc Agate. Published by Claire Lumière, 2018.
Book
 
Mahāvaipulya Sūtra of the Tathāgata Store
This is Rulu's English translation of the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra based on the Chinese edition by Buddhabhadra, T666.
Article
 
The Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra
This chapter contains William Grosnick's English translation of the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra from the Chinese edition by Buddhabhadra, T1666.
Article

Scholarship

 
A Buddha Within: The Tathāgatagarbhasūtra
A comprehensive edition of the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra (TGS) and an annotated English translation based on Tibetan materials, by Michael Zimmermann.
Book
 
Affirmation in Negation: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices
This dissertation by Shu-hui Jennifer Chen contains a study of the Tathāgatagarbha theory and a translation of the text (T666).
Dissertation
 
The Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra
This chapter contains William Grosnick's English translation of the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra from the Chinese edition by Buddhabhadra, T1666.
Article

Number 258
Canon Sūtra
Sanskrit ārya-tathāgatagarbha-nāma-mahāyānasūtra (D)
Alternate Titles 'phags pa de bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (A Bd C Cz D Dd Dk F Gt H He J L Np Pj Pz Q R S Ty U V Z);de bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po'i mdo (N);'phags pa de bzhin gshegs pa'-i snying po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo' (Ng);'phags pa de bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo';de bzhin gshegs snying po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo;'phags pa de bzhin gx15b;egs pa'i sxf1;ing po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po‘i mdo'
Alternate Titles - Sanskrit ārya tathāgatagarbha nāma mahāyāna sūtra
Alternate Titles - Devanagari आर्य तथागतगर्भ नाम महायान सूत्र