དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
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དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ།
- de bzhin gshegs pa’i snying po
- tathāgatagarbha
- Term
- essence of the Tathāgata
- དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ།
- de bzhin gshegs pa’i snying po
- tathāgatagarbha
The innate potential for becoming a tathāgata that all beings possess. Also refers to a class of discourses that proclaim this teaching.
- tathāgatagarbha
- དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ།
- de bzhin gshegs pa’i snying po
- tathāgatagarbha
The term tathāgatagarbha means “matrix of the tathāgata,” “pregnant with a Realized One,” “womb or seed of a Realized One,” “containing a buddha,” “having buddha nature,” and so on. It is commonly known as buddha-nature, the potential for buddhahood, present in every sentient being.