Bodhigarbha

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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.
Definitions

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

The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century.