The Buddha as I: Selfhood and Identity in Śrīmālādevī-siṃhanāda-sūtra
This article undertakes the issue of the Mahāyāna Buddhist concept of tathāgatagarbha, seen as a form of selfhood. Its task lies in outlining the methods employed to disclose tathāgatagarbhaas a “true” and “original” – but also utterly Buddhist – form of self. In the first part of the ar-ticle I d...
| Published in: | Studia religiologica |
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| Language: | English |
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Wydawn. Uniw. Jagiellońskiego
2017
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Studia religiologica
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B Mahajana B Tathāgatagarbha B buddyzm B Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra B Śrīmālādevī-sūtra B natura buddy B Ātman |
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| Summary: | This article undertakes the issue of the Mahāyāna Buddhist concept of tathāgatagarbha, seen as a form of selfhood. Its task lies in outlining the methods employed to disclose tathāgatagarbhaas a “true” and “original” – but also utterly Buddhist – form of self. In the first part of the ar-ticle I demonstrate the stance of sūtras from the Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra group, in which tathāgatagarbha is bluntly termed ātman, and which posit that all ideas of selfhood are deriva-tives of the notion of tathāgatagarbha. In the second part, where the Śrīmālādevī-sūtra is taken under consideration, I introduce an interpretative strategy that shows how this scripture establish-es tathāgatagarbha as an enduring self. This is done mainly by assigning the tathāgatagarbhaa function of sustaining the diachronic coherence of sentient beings in saṃsāra. Consequently, tathāgatagarbha can be viewed as a “prototype” for the idea of “base consciousness” (ālayavijñāna). The final part of the article is built around the question of why Śrīmālādevī-sūtra warns against as-cribing the label ātman to tathāgatagarbha |
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| ISSN: | 2084-4077 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studia religiologica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4467/20844077SR.17.009.7340 |