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Click to Expand/Collapse Option0 Nidāna
Click to Expand/Collapse Option1. The simile of a tathāgata in a lotus
Click to Expand/Collapse Option2. The simile of honey shielded by bees
Click to Expand/Collapse Option3. The simile of kernels enclosed by husks
Click to Expand/Collapse Option4. The simile of a gold nugget in excrement
Click to Expand/Collapse Option5. The simile of a hidden treasure beneath the house of some poor person
Click to Expand/Collapse Option6. The simile of a sprout in the seed
Click to Expand/Collapse Option7. The simile of a tathāgata image wrapped in rotten rags
Click to Expand/Collapse Option8. The simile of the future universal emperor in the womb of a poor, depressed woman
Click to Expand/Collapse Option9. The simile of golden figures within burned clay molds
Click to Expand/Collapse Option10. Merit from propagating the TGS
Click to Expand/Collapse Option11. The story of *Sadāpramuktaraśmi and *Anantaraśmi
Click to Expand/Collapse Option12. Ānanda questions the Buddha about the length of time till perfection
Click to Expand/Collapse Option13. Colophon
Tathāgatagarbhasūtra
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Contents

1. References
2. Abbreviations
3. Bibliography
4. Credits


References:

The references for the canonical Tibetan translation are to the relevant paragraphs in Zimmermann (2002). The Bth edition and English translation follow the same paragraph numbering. The references for the Chinese are to T, texts no. 666 (translation by Buddhabhadra 佛陀跋陀) and 667 (translation by Amoghavajra 不空). 



Abbreviations:




Abbreviations for the whole library.


Bibliography:

Amoghavajra 不空, 大方廣如來藏經 (Chinese translation of Tgs), in T 667.

Buddhabhadra 佛陀跋陀 (420 A.D.), 大方等如來藏經 (Chinese translation of Tgs), in T 666.

Śākyaprabha and Ye shes sde, "’Phags pa de bźin gśegs pa’i sñiṅ po źes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo" (Tibetan translation of Tathāgatagarbhasūtra), in Zimmermann (2002).

Unknown translators (Śākyaprabha and Ye shes sde?), "De bźin gśyes sñiṅ po źes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo", second Tibetan translation of the Tgs in the Newark manuscript Kanjur from Bathang, in Zimmermann 2002.

Zimmermann, Michael (2002), A Buddha within: The Tathagatagarbhasutra; the earliest exposition of the Buddha-nature teaching in India, English translation of Tgs, Soka University, Tokyo.



Credits:
Input by Jens Braarvig, Oslo 2010.
 
We would like to thank Michael Zimmermann for generously allowing for his work to be presented here.

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