Buddha-nature

. Buddha - nature ( Skt. buddha - dhatu, Tathagata dhātu ;佛性Chinese, Pinyin foxing, W.-G. fo -hsing; hg 불성, bulseong; jap仏 性Bussho; viet phat Tinh; Tib. Bde gshegs snying po) is in many parts of Mahayana Buddhism, particularly in the Chinese Chan and Japanese Zen, as well as to be universal, innate ability and potency of living beings, Buddhas in Tibetan Vajrayana. The Buddha nature of all living beings is further illustrated in the Tathagatagarbha sutras as the inherent, incomprehensible, uncreated, immortal and blissful Buddha - essence ( svabhava ).

The origins of the Buddha - nature in the Mahayana lie in the explanations of the Lotus Sutra, the Nirvana Sutra, the Tathagatagarbha Sutras, the Vajrayana teachings in the non- dual practice systems such as Lamdre, Dzogchen and Mahamudra. There the Buddha - nature is also referred to as the nature of mind or as clear light original awareness. In the Nirvana Sutra ( nitya, dhruva, sasvata ), the Buddha - nature (Buddha - dhatu ) by the Buddha himself declared " the true self " and Buddha as " fixed and eternal resistant, " described. It is also equated with the Dharmakaya.

In the Nirvana Sutra states: " The essence of the self is the subtle Tathagatagarbha " (Chapter: Tathagatagarbha ).

This Tathagatagarbha - another word for the Buddha nature - is named after the Nirvana Sutra, the true self, the self of the Buddha, which knows no death. According to the Nirvana Sutra:

"All things (dharma ) are without self. The self is really ( tattva ), the self is fixed ( dhruva ), the self is virtue ( guna ), the self is eternal ( nitya ), and the self is peace "(Chapter: Gram ).

In Mahayana Sutra Angulimaliya is also claimed that the Tathagatagarbha (Buddha - nature ) is, without exception, found in every creature:

"All things (dharma ) have the Tathagatagarbha as its essence ( svabhava ) ... Even though all the Buddhas themselves diligently looked for it, they would not Tathagatagarbha find that is not eternal ( sasvata ), because the eternal Dhatu, the Buddha nature, the Dhatu, which is equipped with endless main characteristics and the smaller properties ( of a Buddha ), is present in all beings. Even if all the Buddhas themselves would eagerly look for it, they would find no Tathagatagarbha that is not fixed ( dhruva ), because the fixed Dhatu, the Buddha nature, the dhatu, the endless main characteristics and the smaller properties ( of a Buddha ) equipped is present in all beings. "

The Buddha - nature is described as indestructible and unborn, because it is influenced neither by external influences, nor by psychological changes. There is a notion of transcendence. The teachings of the Buddha - nature are the common perception of an unenlightened being compared as a relative reality of the perception of an enlightened being. This non-dual enlightened perception is known as absolute reality. From the perspective of absolute reality relative and absolute reality are inseparable.

The doctrines of emptiness, Shunyata and the non-self Anatta other hand, refers to conditioned arisings.