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LANKAVATARA SUTRA, third century (India), fifth century (China) This Yogacara text synthesizes buddha-nature doctrines with the Buddhist conceptions of emptiness and selflessness (Skt: nairatmya). TATHAGATAGARBHA SUTRA, fifth century CE (China), eighth century CE (Tibet) This is the earliest known full Mahayana exposition of buddhanature, according to which there is a latent, inactivated "buddha" inside each of us. Recommendation: Richard King, Early Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism: The Mahayana context of the Gaudapadiya-karika, and Christopher Jones, The Buddhist Self: On Tathagatagarbha and Atman. [Extracted from the article] |
