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The 38 pages that link to Buddha-nature, each with the reason it gives.

• Tibetan BuddhismRelated: Tibetan traditions debate how Buddha-nature relates to emptiness and the path to awakening.

• BodhisattvaRelated: Teachings about universal potential help explain why bodhisattvas pursue awakening for all beings.

• Buddhism in ChinaRelated: Chinese debates developed distinctive interpretations of this influential Mahayana doctrine.

• Pure Land BuddhismRelated: It provides a broader framework for understanding eventual awakening in a pure land.

• ZenRelated: Zen teachings often frame awakening as realizing a nature not absent from ordinary experience.

• Chan BuddhismRelated: Chan teachings often frame awakening as recognizing this nature.

• BodhicittaRelated: It offers one account of why universal awakening is possible.

• BuddhahoodRelated: It explains awakening as uncovering a potential obscured by defilements.

• MahamudraRelated: Mahamudra teachings often explain awakening as uncovering qualities obscured rather than created.

• Nichiren BuddhismRelated: Nichiren’s reading of the Lotus Sutra stresses the possibility of Buddhahood in ordinary life.

• TendaiRelated: Tendai interpretations connect universal awakening with the Lotus Sutra’s promise of buddhahood for all.

• TulkuRelated: It contrasts with tulku status, which is a recognized lineage role rather than universal potential.

• ZazenRelated: Some Zen teachings frame zazen as expressing, rather than manufacturing, awakening.

• AmitābhaRelated: Some Pure Land interpretations connect reliance on Amitābha with awakening to one’s own buddha-nature.

• Deity yogaRelated: Deity practice draws on the possibility of awakening already present in beings.

• DōgenRelated: Dōgen’s writings radically examine how Buddha-nature relates to being and impermanence.

• Jōdo ShinshūRelated: Its language of inherent potential differs from Shinran’s emphasis on Amida’s vow and human ignorance.

• BodhidharmaRelated: Later Chan interpretations connected direct awakening with the recognition of Buddha-nature.

• UpayaRelated: The possibility of awakening gives adapted teachings their ultimate aim.

• Mahayana sutrasRelated: Several sutras teach that buddhahood is latent or attainable by all beings.

• LongchenpaRelated: Longchenpa’s account of Dzogchen relates primordial awareness to the nature of awakening.

• HuinengRelated: The Platform Sutra links innate capacity for awakening with Huineng’s account of mind.

• SvabhāvaCompared with: Some formulations sound like an enduring essence, prompting debate about their relation to svabhāva.

• DhammapadaCompared with: This later doctrine differs from the Dhammapada’s emphasis on cultivating conduct and insight.

• DharmakāyaRelated: Its relationship to Dharmakāya is central to debates about whether awakening is discovered or attained.

• Jōdo-shūRelated: It provides a broader Buddhist account of the possibility of liberation.

• Seon BuddhismRelated: Seon teachings often connect direct awakening with realizing one's Buddha-nature.

• SukhāvatīRelated: Pure Land teachings frame birth in Sukhāvatī as a favorable condition for realizing awakening.

• SaṃbhogakāyaRelated: Teachings about Buddha-bodies relate the possibility of Buddhahood to its manifestations.

• TrikayaRelated: Its accounts of latent awakening help explain how Buddhahood is understood beyond an individual life.

• NirmāṇakāyaRelated: The manifestation body teaches beings whose awakening is possible.

• Shunryū SuzukiRelated: Suzuki connected practice with expressing Buddha-nature rather than acquiring something absent.

• WonhyoRelated: Wonhyo’s readings of Buddha-nature texts connected doctrinal debate to universal possibility of awakening.

• JinulRelated: Jinul’s account of sudden awakening rested on recognizing this innate nature.

• SōtōRelated: Dōgen's teachings on practice and awakening are often read alongside Sōtō understandings of buddha-nature.

• YidamRelated: Yidam practice is often interpreted as making awakened qualities experientially present, not importing them from outside.

• Huiyuan of Mount LuRelated: Huiyuan debated how Mahāyāna teachings about awakening applied to ordinary beings.

• TathātāRelated: Some traditions connect suchness with the intrinsic nature disclosed in awakening.