Sūtra Tathāgatagarbha

Sūtra Tathāgatagarbha adalah naskah Buddha Mahāyāna yang mengisahkan keberadaan "Tathāgatagarbha" (Buddha-Matriks, Buddha-Embrio, Buddha-Esensi, artinya "ulat dari yang akan datang") dalam seluruh makhluk. Sang Buddha menyatakan bagimana dalam diri setiap orang terdapat "harta karun Buddha besar yang abadi dan tak berubah".

Patung Buddha di Bojjannakonda, Andhra Pradesh, India

Sumber

• Grosnick, William H. (1995), The Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra (PDF), Princeton: In: Lopez, Donald S. Jr.; ed. Buddhism in Practice, Princeton University Press, diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal March 27, 2013 
• Hubbard, Jamie (2001), Absolute Delusion, Perfect Buddhahood, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press 
• King, Sallie B. (1997). The Doctrine of Buddha Nature is Impeccably Buddhist (PDF). In: Jamie Hubbard, Paul Swanson, Pruning the Bodhi Tree, the Storm over Critical Buddhism, Honolulu: University of Hawai’iPress. ISBN 0-8248-1908X. Diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal 2009-02-25. 
• Padma, Sree; Barber, Anthony W. (2008), Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra, Albany: State University of New York Press, ISBN 0791474852 
• Shih, Heng-Ching, The Significance Of 'Tathagatagarbha' -- A Positive Expression Of 'Sunyata, diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal February 15, 2005 
• Zimmermann, Michael (1999), The Tathagatagarbhasutra: Its Basic Structure and Relation to the Lotus Sutra (PDF), Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University for the Academic Year 1998, hlm. 143–168, diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal October 8, 2011 
• Zimmermann, Michael (2002), A Buddha Within: The Tathāgatagarbhasūtra. Biblotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica VI (PDF), Tokyo: The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University, diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal November 11, 2013 

Bacaan tambahan

• Cole, Alan (2005), "Sameness with a Difference in the Tathagatagarbha Sutra", Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature (PDF), University of California Press, hlm. 197–235, ISBN 9780520931404, diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal 2020-09-23, diakses tanggal 2020-02-24 
• Hodge, Stephen (2009 & 2012)."The Textual Transmission of the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana-sutra", lecture at the University of Hamburg
• King, Sallie, B. (1991). "Buddha Nature", State University of New York Press, ISBN 0-7914-0428-5

Pranala luar

• Chinese, Tibetan and English texts of the TGS in the Thesaurus Literaturae Buddhicae, University of Oslo
• Appreciation of the Nirvana Sutra and Tathagatagarbha teachings
• "Tathagatagarbha Buddhism": the full text of the "Tathagatagarbha Sutra" plus text of 4 other "tathagatagarbha" sutras