Non-dualitéLa non-dualité désigne à la fois l'unité fondamentale qui, selon certaines écoles philosophiques orientales, sous-tendrait la diversité apparente, la multiplicité des formes du monde, et les approches philosophiques ou pratiques qui conduiraient à comprendre la dualité entre transcendantalisme et immanence. En Occident, certains courants philosophiques abordent le concept de non-dualité.
Tathāgatagarbha sūtrasThe Tathāgatagarbha sūtras are a group of Mahayana sutras that present the concept of the "womb" or "embryo" (garbha) of the tathāgata, the buddha. Every sentient being has the possibility to attain Buddhahood because of the tathāgatagarbha. This concept originated in India but was a major influence in the development of East Asian Buddhism, where it was equated with the concept of Buddhadhātu, "buddha-element" or "buddha-nature". The Tathāgatagarbha sūtras include the Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra, Śrīmālādevī Siṃhanāda Sūtra, Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra and the Aṅgulimālīya Sūtra.
JñanasrimitraJñānaśrīmitra (fl. 975-1025 C.E.) was an Indian Buddhist philosopher of the epistemological (pramana) tradition of Buddhist philosophy, which goes back to Dignāga and Dharmakīrti. Jñānaśrīmitra was also known as a Yogācāra Buddhist who defended a form of Buddhist idealism termed Sākāravada which holds that cognitive content or aspects of consciousness ("ākāras") are real and not illusory. Jñānaśrīmitra was also a skilled poet, a dvāra-paṇḍita (gate-scholar) of Vikramaśīla university, and the teacher of Ratnakīrti.
Buddha-natureIn Buddhist philosophy, Buddha-nature is the potential for any sentient beings to become a Buddha. It is a common English translation for several related Mahayana Buddhist terms, including tathata ("suchness") but most notably tathāgatagarbha and buddhadhātu. Tathāgatagarbha means "the womb" or "embryo" (garbha) of the "thus-gone" (tathāgata), or "containing a tathāgata", while buddhadhātu literally means "Buddha-realm" or "Buddha-substrate". Buddha-nature has a wide range of (sometimes conflicting) meanings in Indian and later East Asian and Tibetan Buddhist literature.
Asangavignette|Asanga et Maitreya Asanga (Aryasanga), , moine bouddhiste gandhârais, originaire de Puruṣapura, actuel Peshawar, Pakistan, est l’un des fondateurs de l’école Cittamātra avec son demi-frère Vasubandhu et Maitreyanatha. Ce dernier auteur est en général assimilé par la tradition bouddhique au bodhisattva Maitreya, qui serait selon ce point de vue l'inspirateur d'Asanga.
HuayanHuayan ( ; traduit en japonais par Kegon, en coréen par Hwaŏmor et en viêtnamien par Hoa Nghiêm) ou son nom complet Huayanzong (, ce terme venant du sanskrit: Avatamsaka, est une école du bouddhisme mahâyâna chinois dont l’enseignement spéculatif, le Huayanlun (discours de Huayan), se base sur l’exégèse du sutra éponyme (Avatamsaka Sutra ou Huayanjing). Avatamsaka signifie l'ornement de fleurs (métaphore de la compréhension suprême).
AnutpadaAnutpāda (अनुत्पाद) is a Buddhist concept for the absence of an origin. In Mahayana Buddhism, "anutpāda" is often symbolized by the letter A. "Anutpāda" means "having no origin", "not coming into existence", "not taking effect", "non-production". "An" also means "not", or "non" "Utpāda" means "genesis", "coming forth", "birth" The Buddhist tradition uses the term "anutpāda" for the absence of an origin or sunyata (voidness). Anutpāda means that dharmas, the constituting elements of reality, do not come into existence.
