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    Challenges→The Dharmadhātu is completely devoid of evil and virtue.

    If the Dharmadhātu is identified with buddha-nature as the ground of all phenomena, it cannot be wholly abstracted from the karmic structure that Yogācāra assigns to that ground.

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    • 1.Yogācāra posits consciousness and karmic imprints (vāsanās) as fundamental to phenomenal experience, not contingent features.
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    • 2.If Dharmadhātu grounds all phenomena, it must account for why phenomena display karmic causality—the primary explanatory pattern in Buddhist metaphysics.
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    • 3.Buddha-nature as ultimate ground cannot exclude the mechanisms through which sentient experience actually arises and transforms.
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    • 1.The Dharmadhātu's transcendence suggests it exceeds any particular causal structure, including karma, which is phenomenal-level conditioning.
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    • 2.Tathāgatagarbha texts emphasize buddha-nature's purity and non-defilement, which seem incompatible with inherent karmic entanglement.
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