Dasheng qixin lun

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大乗起信論
Dasheng qixin lun
ཏ་ཤེང་ཅི་ཟིན་ལུང་།(*ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་མོས་པ་བསྐྱེད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།)
*Mahāyānaśraddhotpādaśāstra
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The Treatise on the Awakening of Faith was written in China in the middle of the sixth century, heavily influenced by Indian Yogācāra and tathāgatagarbha teachings. It provides a scriptural foundation for both buddha-nature theory and the doctrine of original enlightenment.

Relevance to Buddha-nature

The Awakening of Faith is a key source text for buddha-nature theory in East Asian Buddhism

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