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Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism	In Sanskrit, “buddha-element,” or “buddha-nature”; the inherent potential of all sentient beings to achieve buddhahood. See page 151.	Enter content from this dictionary. You can find it online here as well as on the PDF in our archive. Follow the format: See page ###: FIRST FEW MEANINGFUL SENTENCES...
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*Has the Sense of	This is most likely the direct source of the English term ''buddha-nature'' via its translation into Chinese and Japanese. These traditions tended to treat the Sanskrit terms ''dhātu'', ''gotra'', and ''garbha'' as synonyms when compounded with the term ''buddha'', though the translation of ''buddhadhātu'' seems to have been adopted as the standard technical term to reference the buddha-nature doctrine, as it could cover a wider range of possible meanings. In other words, the term ''dhātu'' could more easily reference both the causal aspect of this nature, commonly associated with the term ''gotra'', and the fruition aspect of this nature, commonly associated with the term ''garbha''.	`Markup OK` Include citations for content in parentheses and add both page creator and last edit info to the end of the paragraph(s). REMINDER: Terms in source languages should be italicized instead of in quotation marks and English translations or phrases should be in quotation marks.
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	Other Definitions Literally, "buddha-element," a synonym for what Rongtön calls natural buddha-nature or undefiled suchness. It is the empty nature of the mind, identical in both sentient beings and buddhas. - Bernert, Christian, ''Perfect or Perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature'' (2018), page 114.	Use this as a free text space to add more content that does not fit above. Feel free to write sentences as needed and cite sources.
Synonyms	tathāgatagarbha
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Earliest Mention	The term first appears in the Mahāyāna recension of the ''Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra'', now available only in Chinese translation, which states that all sentient beings have the “buddha-element” (''foxing''). (The Chinese translation ''foxing'' literally means “buddha-nature” and the Chinese has often been mistakenly back-translated as the Sanskrit buddhatā; buddhadhātu is the accepted Sanskrit form.) The origin of the term may, however, be traced back as far as the ''Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā'', one of the earliest Mahāyāna Sūtras, where the fundamental substance of the mind is said to be luminous (''prakṛtiś cittasya prabhāsvarā''), drawing on a strand of Buddhism that has its antecedents in such statements as the Pāli ''Aṅguttaranikāya'': “The mind, O monks, is luminous but defiled by adventitious defilements” (''pabhassaraṃ idaṃ bhikkhave cittaṃ, tañ ca kho āgantukehi upakkilesehi upakkiliṭṭhaṃ''). Because the bodhisattva realizes that the buddha-element is inherent in him at the moment that he arouses the aspiration for enlightenment (''bodhicittotpāda'') and enters the bodhisattvayāna, he achieves the profound endurance (''kṣānti'') that enables him to undertake the arduous training, over not one, but three, incalculable eons of time (''asaṃkhyeyakalpa''), that will lead to buddhahood. The buddhadhātu is a seminal concept of the Mahāyāna and leads to the development of such related doctrines as the “matrix of the tathāgatas” (''tathāgatagarbha'') and the “immaculate consciousness” (''amalavijñāna''). - ''Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'' (2014), pages 151-152.	Cite a specific scholarly source!
Further Readings	See also: King, Sallie B. ''Buddha Nature''. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991, pp. 173–74, note 5.	Any other reading material related to this term.
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