Is “Buddha-Nature” Buddhist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9204569 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard King (0000-0001-6404-8052, 1Department of Religious Studies University of Stirling Stirling. Scotland. FK9 4LA United Kingdom) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Numen (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0029-5973 • E-ISSN: 1568-5276 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/1568527952598729 |
| OpenAlex | W2086266756 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Recent controversies in Japanese Buddhist scholarship have focused upon the Mahāyāna notion of a “Buddha nature” within all sentient beings and whether or not the concept is compatible with traditional Buddhist teachings such as anātman (no-abiding-self). This controversy is not only relevant to Far Eastern Buddhism, for which the notion of a Buddha-nature is a central doctrinal theme, but also for the roots of this tradition in those Indian Mahāyāna sūtras which utilised the notion of tathāgatagarbha (Buddha-embryo or Buddha womb). One of the earliest Buddhist texts to discuss this notion is the Queen Śrīmālā Sūtra (Śrīmālādevīsūtra), which appears to display a transitional and revisionist attitude towards traditional Mahāyāna doctrines such as emptiness (śūnyatā) and no-abiding-self (anātman). These and related issues are examined as they occur in the Śrīmālā Sūtra and as they might relate to the issue of the place of Buddha-nature thought within the Buddhist tradition. Finally some concluding remarks are made about the quest for “true” Buddhism
Buddhism · Emptiness · Epistemology · Gautama Buddha · Political science · Scholarship · Theme (computing) · Theology · Chinese history and philosophy · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |