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			<div class="position-relative p-5 text-120">Discover how buddha-nature is articulated in various Buddhist traditions by exploring multimedia, articles, books, and translations of primary sources from leading Buddhist teachers and academics. This page brings together a collection of curated resources designed to make the concept of buddha-nature understandable and accessible to a general audience.</div>

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					|header=Buddha Nature: What Is It? How Is It Different from soul? A Teaching from Zasep Tulku
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					|content="Everyone has Buddha Nature," explains H.E. Zasep Tulku Rinpoche in a "learning from the Teachers" video on the topic from BuddhaWeekly.
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					|link=Media/Discovering_Buddha_Nature:_Talk_by_Yongey_Mingyur_Rinpoche
					|header=Discovering Buddha Nature: Talk by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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					|content=Mingyur Rinpoche describes buddha-nature with the metaphor of a diamond covered in mud, explaining how the innate purity of awareness can be obscured, but never changed.
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					|link=Media/Dealing_with_Depression:_Interview_with_Jetsunma_Tenzin_Palmo_on_Study_Buddhism
					|header=Dealing with Depression: Interview with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo on Study Buddhism
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					|content=Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo discusses buddha-nature beautifully for a general audience.
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					|header=What Is Buddha-Nature? by Wulstan Fletcher
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					|content=Wulstan Fletcher explains buddha-nature as the deepest aspect of oneself, a wellspring of goodness and wisdom that is always present.
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					|header=On How Beginning Students Might Engage with Buddha-Nature Teachings by Ringu Tulku
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					|content=Ringu Tulku talks about how beginning students might start to orient themselves toward buddha-nature teachings in practice. He explains that it is important to recognize that everybody has the seed of wisdom and compassion within them. 
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					|header=We Are Enlightened by Nature
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					|content=Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche provides encouragement that we are all enlightened by nature, and the path is a process of discovering that enlightened nature.
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					|header=On Buddhanature—and What It Is Not, by Khandro Rinpoche
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					|content="Buddhism must always be seen as a skillful means for realizing the most basic aspect of human life: one's inherent buddhanature."
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					|header=Emptiness–Buddhanature, by Traleg Kyabgon
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					|content="Our true nature is buddhanature and that buddhanature is the nature of all sentient beings."
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					|header=Lasting Happiness, by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche 
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					|content="... We don’t have to look outside the present moment to experience wisdom, compassion, and the boundless purity of our true nature."
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					|header=This Is My Mind, Luminous and Empty, by Tsoknyi Rinpoche
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					|content="That something, when I was old enough to fit words to it, is a kind of spark that lights the lives of all living beings.... In many Buddhist teachings, it’s known as buddhanature."
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					|header=The Example of the Buddha: Relating the Life of the Buddha to Our Own, by Joseph Goldstein
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					|content="Another level on which we can relate is to view the Buddha as a fundamental archetype of humanity; that is, as the full manifestation of buddha-nature, the mind that is free of defilement and distortion..."
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					|header=The Sky Dragon's Profound Roar, by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso
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					|content="We practice the genuine dharma because it is a method for clearing away the temporary stains that obscure our vision of the true nature of mind." 
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					|name=[[People/Dalai_Lama,_14th|14th Dalai Lama]] & [[People/Michel,_P.|Peter Michel]]
					|title=The Buddha Nature
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					|name=[[People/Dalai_Lama,_14th|14th Dalai Lama]] & [[People/Chodron,_T.|Thubten Chodron]]
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					|header=Buddha-Nature by Rev. George Kosho Finch
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					|content=This week's topic is Buddha Nature, in Sanskrit: ''tathāgatagarbha'' (如来藏). All sentient beings are considered to be in possession of the Buddha Nature, the potential to attain enlightenment.
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					|header=It Is Your Buddha-Nature That Sees, Hears, and Speaks!
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					|content=Daehaeng Kun Sunim, a Seon (Zen) master and Buddhist nun from Korea, responds to questions about the concept of Juingong (the underlying mind) from an audience member.
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					|content=Rinso Ed Sattizahn gives a dharma talk at San Francisco Zen Center's City Center on the topic of buddha-nature. He touches on selections from Dōgen's ''Genjōkōan'' to illustrate this Buddhist teaching
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					|header=One's True Mind and Inherent Nature by Sheng Yen
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					|content=Our true mind is the pure mind of wisdom free of defilements. Our inherent nature refers to the nature of our being something common, which is also called the Buddha-nature.
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					|header=The Cloudless Sky of Buddha-Nature
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					|content=Rev. Kokyo Henkel teaches on "The Cloudless Sky of Buddha Nature" at the San Francisco Zen Center on September 6, 2011.
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					|content=Geoffery Shugen Arnold, Sensei, on Case 30 of the Gateless Gate, “Mazu’s ‘Mind is buddha.'”
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					|content=Original sin vs. original goodness: Mahayana Buddhism offers a more hopeful view of human nature.
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					|content=When we truly give ourselves over to practice, explains Roko Sherry Chayat, we let go of our dependence on outcomes and begin to trust just being what we are, buddhanature, revealed right here, right now, in this very body and place.
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					|content=Change isn’t just a fact of life we have to accept and work with, says Norman Fischer. Practitioners have always understood impermanence as the cornerstone of Buddhist teachings and practice.
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					|content=An introduction to the Awakening of Faith, an immensely important treatise popular in all traditions of Buddhism in East Asia.
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					|content=In Shin Buddhism, we don’t practice to achieve anything—not enlightenment, good karma, a favorable rebirth, or material rewards. We practice simply to give thanks for what we have received.
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			<div class="pr-lg-5 pl-4">The seeds of buddha-nature teachings are sprinkled throughout the sutras and tantras of the Buddhist canon. A core group of scripture that initially taught buddha-nature known as the tathāgatagarbha sūtras date between the second and fourth centuries. These include the ''Tathāgatagarbhasūtra'', the ''Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra'', the ''Śrīmālādevīsūtra'' and several others. The famous ''Laṅkāvatārasūtra'' was also important for buddha-nature theory. In Tibetan Buddhism the late-Indian treatise ''Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra'', or ''Gyü Lama'' as it is known in the Tibetan, serves as a major source for buddha-nature. In East Asia the ''Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna'' (大乗起信論) and the ''Vajrasamādhisūtra'' were the most influential treatises in spreading buddha-nature theory. And in Japan, the Zen master Dōgen (1200–1253), whose instructional lectures were collected in his ''Shōbōgenzo'', also wrote extensively on the topic of buddha-nature. All of these important buddha-nature texts have been translated into English by leading scholars and translators. Below is a selection of these works:</div>
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				|title=The Lankavatara Sutra: A Zen Text
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			|title=Karl Brunnhölzl's Buddha-Nature Interview
			|description=In an interview with the Tsadra Foundation, Karl Brunnhölzl discusses why one might study buddha-nature, the purpose of the buddha-nature teachings, and the concept of the innate luminosity of mind.
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					|title=The Purpose of Buddha-Nature Teachings
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			|title=First Writer-In-Digital-Residence: Alex Gardner
			|description=Alex Gardner served as the writer-in-residence for Tsadra Foundation's Buddha-Nature Project from 2017-2019. Read his introductory articles on the ''Ratnagotravibhāga'' and the history of buddha-nature theory.
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