Basic Program: Buddha Nature, Essence of Enlightenment by Don Handrick

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Basic Program: Buddha Nature, Essence of Enlightenment by Don Handrick
Don Handrick
2014/05/28
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What is enlightenment? How is it possible? Who can achieve it? One of Mahayana Buddhism’s most important teachings is the doctrine of Tathāgatagarbha, or Buddha Nature, the innate pure and changeless essence of the mind which gives rise to the fundamental potential for each being to attain full enlightenment or Buddhahood. This course in the FPMT Basic Program utilizes the first chapter of Maitreya’s Sublime Continuum, a text replete with rich poetic imagery and metaphor, to explore this profound and inspiring topic. Taught by Don Handrick. (Source Accessed Nov 16, 2020)

The main text that is used in the course is a translation of the first chapter of the Ratnagotravibhāga by Jeffrey Hopkins and Joe Wilson called "The Tathāgata Essence."

For a three-part video series by Don Handrick on the Uttaratantra, click here

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