Buddha Nature across Asia
Creators: name: Mathes, Klaus-Dieter
name: Kemp, Casey
name: Jones, Christopher V.
name: Kano, Kazuo
name: Stone, Jacqueline I.
name: Kumagai, Seiji
name: Kemp, Casey
name: Draszczyk, Martina
name: Querl, Katrin
name: Tamphel, Khenpo Konchok
name: Sheehy, Michael R.
name: Mathes, Klaus-Dieter
name: Jorden, Khenpo Ngawang
name: Higgins, David
name: Joos, Sina
name: Brambilla, Filippo
name: Duckworth, Douglas
name: Hookham, Shenpen
Publisher: name: WSTB: Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Tibetologie
subject: Tibetan studies
subject: ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Tibetologie (602050)
subject: ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- Tibetan studies (602050)
subject: Indologie
subject: Indology
subject: ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Indologie (602018)
subject: ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- Indology (602018)
subject: Philosophie
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Philosophie, Ethik, Religion (603) -- Philosophie, Ethik (6031) -- Philosophie (603113)
subject: ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Philosophy, Ethics, Religion (603) -- Philosophy, Ethics (6031) -- Philosophy (603113)
subject: Buddhismus
subject: Buddhism
subject: ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Philosophie, Ethik, Religion (603) -- Sonstige Religion, Religionswissenschaften (6039) -- Buddhismus (603902)
subject: ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Philosophy, Ethics, Religion (603) -- Religion, Religious Studies not elsewhere classified (6039) -- Buddhism (603902)
subject: Buddha Nature
subject: Mahāyāna
subject: Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

description: The tathāgatagarbha or buddha nature doctrine is centered on sentient beings’ potential for buddhahood—sometimes understood in the sense that all beings already contain a “buddha within.” This notion is found through various strands of early Mahāyāna sources that, notwithstanding their complex and interwoven development, came to share enough common features to summarize them under the doxographical category of Tathāgatagarbha.

The chapters contained in this volume represent the latest research into buddha nature theory that covers a range of topics across major Buddhist traditions. These contributions were originally presented as papers during the symposium “Tathāgatagarbha across Asia: The Reception of an Influential Mahāyāna Doctrine in Central and East Asia,” held at the University of Vienna in 2019. This symposium brought together academic scholars focusing on religio-historical developments of buddha nature theory as well as traditional teachers and monastics who offered emic perspectives on the relevance of the concept within the context of their own tradition. The resulting volume, therefore, aims at contributing to the overall better understanding of tathāgatagarbha doxography, both historically and in living Buddhist communities.