Tag: tathagatha
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Diamond Sutra – Buddha can neither come nor go – 金刚经 – 无所从来，亦无所去，故名如来。
Tathagata in Chinese is “如来”, which means “as is”, or “as is originally is”. This “original is” is a state prior to all mentalizations and descriptions, and is beyond the descriptions of coming and going, sitting or lying, a he or a she, etc, which are identifications built on the notions of time and space,…