{"id":10067,"date":"2023-12-26T19:51:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T19:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/hip-glossary-tathagatagarbha\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T19:51:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T19:51:06","slug":"hip-glossary-tathagatagarbha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/hip-glossary\/hip-glossary-tathagatagarbha\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip Glossary: Tathagatagarbha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tathagatagarbha:<\/p>\n<div><strong>tathagatagarbha<\/strong> Buddha-nature or the seed of enlightenment. &quot;Tathagata-garbha&quot; means &quot;Buddha Womb\/ Buddha Matrix&quot; or &quot;Buddha Embryo&quot;, and this notion is explicated by the Buddha in the &quot;Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra&quot; as the &quot;True Self&quot; within all sentient beings &#8211; the unconditioned, boundless, nurturing, sustaining, deathless and diamond-like Self of Buddha, which is indiscernible to worldly, unawakened vision as a result of the masses of negative mental states and general moral taints which envelop it.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The Tathagatagarbha Sutra presents the Tathagatagarbha as a virtual Buddha-homunculus, a fully wisdom-endowed Buddha seated majestically within the body of each being &#8211; beyond all moral contamination -, clearly visible only to a perfect Buddha. This is the most &quot;personalist&quot; depiction of the Tathagatagarbha encountered in any of the chief Tathagatagarbha sutras. Other Tathagatagarbha sutras view the Buddha-garbha in a more abstract, less precisely defined, manner. But all are agreed that the Tathagatagarbha is an immortal transcendental Essence and that it resides in every single being. <\/div>\n<p>source:wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tathagatagarbha: tathagatagarbha Buddha-nature or the seed of enlightenment. &quot;Tathagata-garbha&quot; means &quot;Buddha Womb\/ Buddha Matrix&quot; or &quot;Buddha Embryo&quot;, and this notion is explicated by the Buddha in the &quot;Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra&quot; as the &quot;True Self&quot; within all sentient beings &#8211; the unconditioned, boundless, nurturing, sustaining, deathless and diamond-like Self of Buddha, which is indiscernible to worldly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hip-glossary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}