The use of, and controversy surrounding, the term atman in the Indian Buddhist tathagatagarbha literature.
<p>The tathāgatagarbha doctrine of Mahāyāna Buddhism affirms the existence of some permanent, significant content of sentient beings that is of the same character as a Buddha. While this alone was an important innovation within Buddhist thought, some of its authors ventured further to deem thi...
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2015
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