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Passages where tathāgatagarbha occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.

• Mahāyāna sūtras · Ratnagotravibhāga · Sanskrit Primary passage

  tatra kathamanādikālikaḥ / yattathāgatagarbhamevādhikṛtya bhagavatā pūrva koṭirna prajñāyata iti deśitaṃ prajñaptam / dhāturiti / yadāha / yo 'yaṃ bhagavaṃstathāgatagarbho ( Rgv 73 ) lokottaragarbhaḥ prakṛtipariśuddhagarbha iti / sarvadharmasamāśraya iti / yadāha / tasmādbhagavaṃstathāgatagarbho niśraya ādhāraḥ pratiṣṭhāsaṃbaddhānāmavinirbhāgānāmamuktajñānānāmasaṃskṛtānāṃ dharmāṇām / asaṃbaddhānāmapi bhagavan vinirbhāgadharmāṇāṃ muktajñānānāṃ saṃskṛtānāṃ dharmāṇāṃ niśraya ādhāraḥ pratiṣṭhā tathāgatagarbha iti / tasmin sati gatiḥ sarveti / yadāha / sati bhagavaṃstathāgarbhe saṃsāra iti parikalp

• Mahāyāna sūtras · Saddharmalaṅkāvatārasūtra · Sanskrit Primary passage

  yaduta tathāgatagarbha ālayavijñānasaṃśabdito mano manovijñānaṃ ca pañca ca vijñānakāyāstīrthyānuvarṇitāḥ / tatra mahāmate pañca vijñānakāyā manovijñānasahitā kuśalākuśalakṣaṇaparaṃparābhedabhinnāḥ saṃtatiprabandhanābhinnaśarīrāḥ pravartamānāḥ pravartante / pravṛtya ca vinaśyanti / svacittadṛśyānavabodhātsamanantaranirodhe 'nyadvijñānaṃ pravartate / saṃsthānākṛtiviśeṣagrāhakaṃ manovijñānaṃ pañcabhirvijñānakāyaiḥ saha saṃprayuktaṃ pravartate kṣaṇakālānavasthāyi / tatkṣaṇikamiti vadāmi / kṣaṇikaṃ punarmahāmate ālayavijñānaṃ tathāgatagarbhasaṃśabditaṃ manaḥsahitaṃ pravṛttivijñānavāsanābhiḥ kṣaṇik

• Mahāyāna sūtras · 大般涅槃經 · Chinese Primary passage

  大般涅槃經 卷第八 宋代沙門慧嚴等依泥洹經加之 12 如來性品 如來性品第十二 迦葉白佛言：「世尊！ 二十五有，有我不耶？ 」 佛 言：「善男子！ 我者，即是如來藏義。 一切眾生悉 有佛性，即是我義。 如是我義，從本已來常 為無量煩惱所覆，是故眾生不能得見。 「善 男子！ 如貧女人舍內多有真金之藏，家人大 小無有知者。 時有異人善知方便，語貧 女言：『我今雇汝，汝可為我耘除草穢。 』女 即答言：『我今不能。 汝若能示我子金藏，然 後乃當速為汝作。 』是人復言：『我知方便，能 示汝子。 …

• Mahāyāna sūtras · Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra · Sanskrit

  atha khalu sudhanaḥ śreṣṭhidārako 'nupūrveṇa yena magadhaviṣaye bodhimaṇḍe sthāvarā pṛthvīdevatā tenopasaṃkrāntaḥ / daśapṛthivīdevatāśatasahasrāṇi anyonyamevaṃ vācamudīrayāmāsuḥ - ayaṃ sa āgacchati, yaḥ sarvasattvānāṃ pratiśaraṇabhūto bhaviṣyati / ayaṃ sa tathāgatagarbha āgacchati, yaḥ sarvasattvānāmavidyāṇḍakośaṃ nirbhetsyati / ayaṃ sa dharmarājakulodita āgacchati, yo 'saṅgavaravimaladharmarājapaṭṭamābandhiṣyati / ayaṃ sa jñānanārāyaṇavajrapraharaṇaśūra āgacchati, yaḥ sarvaparapravādicakraṃ pramardiṣyati / atha tāni sthāvarāpramukhāni daśapṛthivīdevatāśatasahasrāṇi mahāpṛthivīcālaṃ kṛtvā gamb

• Mahāmudrā · Instructions on the Fivefold Mahāmudrā · English

  At that moment, consider his three vajras and your three doors To be indivisible, and relax into uncontrived naturalness. 4) Fourth is the main part: training in Mahāmudrā. First , there’s what’s to be understood; and second , what is to be practiced. First , the nature of all that appears and exists within saṃsāra and nirvāṇa Has from the beginning been the utterly pure dharmadhātu. Profoundly clear, non-dual, beyond extremes, and uncompounded, This is what we call “Original Buddha,” The causal continuum, the natural state of Mahāmudrā, And the tathāgatagarbha—buddha nature.

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