CONTENTS:-
I. INTRODUCTION:
1. The Role of the Buddha Nature Concept
2. Terms
3. History
4. The Text of the Buddha Nature Treatise
5. The Buddha Nature Treatise and Chinese Buddhist Thought
II. THE CONCEPT OF BUDDHA NATURE:
1. Taking the Semantic Ascent
2. Refutation of Other Views
3. The Essence of Buddha Nature:
i. The Buddha Nature as Three Causes
ii. The Three Natures (Trisvabhava)
iii. Tathagatagarbha
III. SOTERIOLOGY: BUDDHA NATURE AS THE PRACTICE OF BUDDHISM:
1. Asrayaparavrtti
2. Dharmakaya and Nirvana
3. Trikaya: Sambhogakaya and Nirmanakaya
4. The Relationship between Person and Buddha
IV. DEREIFICATION OF SELF AND MIND:
1. The "Own-Nature" of Buddha Nature
2. Atmaparamita
3. Self
4. Pure Mind
5. Dharmakaya and "Self"
6. Mind
V. ONTOLOGY: MONISM VS. NONDUALISM:
1. All Sentient Beings Possess the Buddha Nature
2. The Paramita
3. Sunya-Asunya
4. Buddha Nature Exists Aboriginally
5. Unborn and Unchanging
VI. ENGAGING IN SPIRITUTAL CULTIVATION
VII. BUDDHA NATURE AND THE CONCEPT OF PERSON:
1. The Ontological-Metaphysical Dimension
2. The Existential Dimension
3. A Final Question
VIII. RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE:
1. Retrospective: Summary of the Text
2. The Buddha Nature Treatise and Chinese Buddhist Thought
3. Buddha Nature Thought and Western Buddhism
