tras containing the developed teaching of the Buddha (according to
up
ya-kau
alya
, his early teaching was adapted to the simple-minded); the recognition of the buddha-nature (
Tath
gata-garbha
,
buddhat
) in all things.
A Mah
y
na Buddhist text, attributed to
A
vagho
a
, though it comes in fact from
c.
4th/5th cent. CE. It is a
s
tra
which was also of importance in
Zen
.