Buddha Nature

What is Buddha nature or the "Tathāgatagarbha"? We'll begin by looking at the roots for these concepts in the early Buddhist texts. Then we'll turn to the origins of the mature concepts in later Mahāyāna texts. Finally we'll turn to some controversies and disagreements over what such concepts might really mean.

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✅ Reference literature:
Anālayo, “Luminous Mind in Theravāda and Dharmaguptaka Discourses”. In JOCBS 2017 (13). https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hambu...
Michael Zimmerman, A Buddha Within: The Tathāgatagarbhasūtra, the Earliest Exposition of the Buddha-Nature Teaching in India. The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University Tokyo, 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/201311110...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangton...

✅ Suttas mentioned:
https://suttacentral.net/an1.51-60/en...
https://suttacentral.net/an1.41-50/en...
https://suttacentral.net/sn22.87/en/s...
https://suttacentral.net/dn27/en/sujato

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00:00 Intro
00:59 Early Buddhism
09:05 Later developments: Lotus Sutra
10:54 Later development: Buddha nature
12:09 Buddha nature and early Mahāyāna
14:57 Controversy with Buddha nature
21:14 Upshot

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