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-class of sutras (in texts) -referred to himself as a tathagata meaning 'thus gone one', or 'one who has thus gone' -signifies the realization of the buddha is beyond all coming and going, all conditioness is samsara Garbha: means embryo -put the two words together, translates as buddha embryo -said all people posses this embryonic buddha nature, it is latent and hasn't been realized yet, its potentiality that we have but we haven't yet realized it -whole point of existence is to realize the indwelling buddha nature -beyond birth, beyond death, uncreated, non differentiated -beyond space and time |
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