Tathāgatagarbhasūtra/Full text
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)
| Reference | 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. |
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| People | Buddhabhadra, Yeshe De, Śākyaprabha |