A Buddha within The Tathagatagarbhasutra The earliest exposition of the Buddha nature teaching in India 1st Edition by Michael Zimmerman 9784998062257 4998062255

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ISBN 10: 4998062255

ISBN 13: 9784998062257

Author: Michael Zimmerman

A Buddha Within is a study and translation of the Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra, one of the earliest Indian scriptures to promote buddha-nature. The short sūtra contains nine similes for buddha-nature that can be divided into two categories: potential and perfected. These include the metaphor of a seed and gold hidden under a poor person’s house. In the first, buddha-nature must be grown and developed; in the second, it is already perfected and must only be revealed. In both cases, however, buddha-nature is al-ready present, and no fundamental transformation is needed to become a buddha: the promise is made that buddhahood is already present in all sentient beings. Zimmerman argues that the sūtra is best read as an ethical treatise, an encouragement to pursue enlightenment. The first one hundred pages of the book are Zimmerman’s commentary on the sūtra and its place in Indian, Chinese, and Tibetan Buddhism. He argues that there were two recensions of the scripture in India, the earliest of which went to China, and the later translated fourteen times into Tibetan. Key to his argument is that the Chinese translations do not contain the first simile of a pure white lotus growing in a muddy swamp. This, the sole passage to use the terms tathāgatagarbha, was thus added later, after the term had gained popularity. Zimmerman surveys the doctrinal issues raised by the scripture, including the relationship between buddha-nature theory and Yogacāra in China, and zhentong and rangtong in the Tibetan con-text. The remainder of the book is an analysis of each recension and translation, an English translation incorporating all recensions and translations, and a critical edition of the Tibetan and Chinese. There is no surviving Sanskrit version.

Table of contents:

Part I: A Study and Annotated Translation of the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra
Chapter 1: General Study and Text-historical Considerations
Chapter 2: Textual History and Structure of the TGS
Chapter 3: The Meaning and Occurrences of the Term tathāgatagarbha
Chapter 4: The Buddha-Nature Doctrine in the TGS
Chapter 5: The TGS as a Part of Indian Buddhism: Its Sources, Motives and Reception
Chapter 6: An Annotated Translation of the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra into English

Part II: Critical and Diplomatic Editions of the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra
Chapter 7: The Textual Materials
Chapter 8: The Stemmatic Relations among the Representatives of Tib
Chapter 9: Characteristics of the Textual Witnesses of Tib
Chapter 10: A Brief Evaluation of the Chinese Materials
Chapter 11: Remarks on the Various Editions
Chapter 12: The Editions

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