Bodhigarbha
From Tsadra Commons
| Key Term | bodhigarbha |
|---|---|
| In Tibetan Script | བྱང་ཆུབ་སྙིང་པོ་ |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | byang chub snying po |
| Devanagari Sanskrit Script | बोधिगर्भ |
| Romanized Sanskrit | bodhigarbha |
| Tibetan Phonetic Rendering | jangchub nyingpo |
| English Standard | essence of awakening |
| Alternate Spellings | snying po byang chub |
| Term Type | Noun |
| Source Language | Tibetan |
| Basic Meaning | An alternative term for tathāgatagarbha found in early Nyingma sources. |
| Has the Sense of | Buddha-nature in its ultimate sense as the primordially existing essence of buddhahood present in all beings. It is treated as Tantric/Dzogchen equivalent of the more Sutra based term tathāgatagarbha. |
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