Tathāgatagarbha

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Key Term	tathāgatagarbha
In Tibetan Script	དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	de gshegs pa’i snying po
Devanagari Sanskrit Script	तथागतगर्भा
Romanized Sanskrit	tathāgatagarbha
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering	Tatagatagarbha
Chinese Script	如来藏
Chinese Pinyin	rúláizàng
Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term	Essence/Heart of the Thus Gone One
Richard Barron's English Term	tathagatagarbha/ "buddha nature" [sutra context] potential/ heart essence for attaining (state of) suchness [Dzogchen context] potential/ heart essence that consitutes attaining (state of) suchness
Term Type	Noun
Source Language	Sanskrit
Basic Meaning	Essence/Heart of the Thus Gone One (Karl Brunnhölzl, Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 897)
Related Terms	sugatagarbha
Definitions
Karl Brunnhölzl	Read more about Different Ways of Explaining the Meaning of Tathāgatagarbha by Karl Brunnhölzl. Explanations of Tathāgatagarbha in Indian Texts Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That Is a Nonimplicative Negation Tathāgatagarbha as Mind’s Luminous Nature Tathāgatagarbha as the Ālaya-Consciousness Tathāgatagarbha as a Sentient Being Tathāgatagarbha as the Dharmakāya, Suchness, the Disposition, and Nonconceptuality Tibetan Assertions on Tathāgatagarbha
Rangjung Yeshe's English Term	tathagata-essence, enlightened essence, buddha-nature
Other Definitions	Womb of the tathagatas “Containing the tathagatas” “Womb”, “embryo”, “essence”, or “heart” (garbha) of the Thus Gone (tathāgata)

Buddha-nature, literally the "womb/essence of those who have gone (to suchness)."

Buddha-nature, literally the "womb/essence of those who have gone (to suchness)."

Buddha-nature, literally the "womb/essence of those who have gone (to suchness)."

Buddha-nature, literally the "womb/essence of those who have gone (to suchness)."

Buddha-nature, literally the "womb/essence of those who have gone (to suchness)."

Suchness itself, absolute reality, or thusness, as in the ultimate state of being of phenomena.