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)
Text
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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)
Citation
Tathāgatagarbhasūtra [तथागतगर्भसूत्र]. 'phags pa de bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra on the Tathāgata Essence (84000)]. Translated by Amoghavajra, Buddhabhadra, Śākyaprabha, Ye shes sde. Kangyur, RKTSK 258 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=258&typ=1.
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
| 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 |







