"Tathagata-garbha" ist ein wichtiger Begriff des Mahayana und Vajrayana Buddhismus, der aber meiner Meinung nach vielfach fälschlich verwendet wird und die wenigsten Personen wissen eigentlich, was hiermit ursprünglich gemeint war.
Um sichmit diesem Begriff auseinanderzusetzen empfiehlt sich im deutschsprachigen Raum die Werke von Prof. Michael Zimmermann, Numata Zentrum Hamburg, der sich ausgiebig mit diesem Thema aueinandergesetzt hat. Anzumerken ist auch noch, dass der Begriff innerhalb der verschiedenen Schulen und Traditionen unterschiedlich verstanden und interpretiert wird:
2016 "The Teachings on Buddha-Nature in Indian Buddhism: On Pluralism, Inclusivism and Soteriological Radicalism" at the International Symposium "Pluralism in Mahayana Buddhism: Strategies of Demarcation, Inclusivism and Tolerance" at the University of Tsukuba, Tokyo Campus, Japan
2015 “Vom Nicht-Selbst zur Buddhanatur? Buddhistische Vorstellungen vom Wesen des Menschen in Wechselwirkung mit anderen indischen Religionen” at the Exzellenzcluster Religion und Politik, Universität Münster2013 “On the Relation between Buddha-nature Thought and Early Yogacara Buddhism in India” at the First International Academic Forum on Maitreya Studies in Hong Kong
2012 “The Early Phase of Buddha-nature Thought in India” at the EKO-Haus der Japanischen Kultur in Düsseldorf, Germany
2011 “Terms for Buddha-Nature in the Early Phase of Buddha-Nature Thought in India” at The XVIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies in Jinshan, Taiwan2009 “'All Beings Have Buddha-Nature': the Genesis of a Central Concept in Mahayana Buddhism” at Ghent University, Belgium
2005 “Looking for the Textual Origins: Buddha-Nature Thought in Indian Mahayana Buddhism” at the University of California, Los Angeles2005 “Eternal Buddhahood and Permeating Knowledge: The Origins of Buddha-Nature” at the XIXth World Congress of the Association for the History of Religions in Tokyo
2004 “Buddha-Nature in India: Ethical Stimulant, Metaphysical Rationale, or Prosyletizing Strategy?” at the University of California, Berkeley
2001 “Tathagatagarbha: Der Ursprung von der Lehre der Buddha-Natur aller Lebewesen im indischen Mahayana“ (Tathagatagarbha: The origin of the teaching of a buddha-nature in all living beings in Indian Mahayana) at the XXVIII. Deutscher Orientalistentag in Bamberg, Germany
2000 “The Kanjur stemma of the De bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po'i mdo (Tathagatagarbhasutra) including fragments from Tabo and its relation to its paracanonical translation in the ‘Newark-Kanjur’” at the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies in Leiden, Holland
2000 “Die Lehre von der Buddhanatur aller Lebewesen” (The teaching of the buddha-nature of all living beings) at the University of Hamburg in the project “Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart“1998 “The ‘discovery’ of a second Tibetan translation of the
Tathagatagarbhasutra among the Newark Kanjur manuscripts: Its philological and philosophical implications” at the 43rd International Conference of Eastern Studies in Tokyo 1996 “The Tathagatagarbhasutra: Some Philological and Philosophical Considerations” at the University of Kyoto, Institute for Research in Humanities2002 A Buddha Within: The Tathagatagarbhasutra, The Earliest Exposition of the Buddha-Nature Teaching in India
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Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica 6, Tokyo: The
International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, 444 pages
2014 "The Process of Awakening in Early Texts on Buddha-Nature in India," in A Distant Mirror: Articulating Indic Ideas in Sixth and Seventh Century Chinese Buddhism, Lin Chen-kuo and Michael Radich (ed.), Hamburg Buddhist Studies Series 3, Hamburg: Hamburg University Press, 513-528
2006 "Wie die Lehre von der Buddhanatur entstand," Tibet und Buddhismus 77 (April, Mai Juni), 20-24
2003 "A Preliminary Analysis of the Tathagatagarbhasutra as Found in the Lang Kanjur," appendix to Klaus-Dieter Mathes' "Establishing the Succession of the Sakya Lamas of Näsar Gompa and Lang Gompa in Dolpo (Nepal)," Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 47, 104-105