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buddha-nature

n. (context Buddhism English) The potential of achieving the nature of the Buddha through study and religious practice

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Buddha-nature

Buddha-nature or Buddha Principle refers to several related terms, most notably tathāgatagarbha and buddhadhātu. Tathāgatagarbha means "the womb" or "embryo" (garbha) of the "thus-gone" (tathagata), or "containing a tathagata", while buddhadhātu literally means "Buddha-realm" or "Buddha-substrate".

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If there is indeed Buddha-nature, it would not leave itself without a witness in other cultures, other places, others times: and in the ears of sensitive men and women, it seems to have whispered the equivalent of "Mahatman" much more often than "anatman.