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    The Dharmadhātu is completely devoid of evil and virtue. — Carmelics
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    The Dharmadhātu is completely devoid of evil and virtue.

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    • 1.Evil and virtue are illusory constructions.
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    • 2.The Dharmadhātu is equivalent to the Sugata-matrix and Tathāgata-nature, which are unchanging.
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    • 3.That which is unchanging and ultimate is beyond illusory constructions such as evil and virtue.
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    • 1.The Yogācāra tradition, particularly Asaṅga in the Mahāyānasaṃgraha, identifies the ālayavijñāna as the substratum of karmic seeds, including morally valenced tendencies.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.A foundation that is causally operative in producing moral distinctions cannot itself be coherently described as beyond moral categories without collapsing the causal account.
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    • 1.Candrakīrti's Madhyamakāvatāra argues that ultimate truth is not a positively characterizable entity but the absence of inherent existence, making 'Dharmadhātu' a nominalist placeholder rather than a substantive ground.
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    • 2.If the Dharmadhātu lacks substantial existence, the claim that it is 'devoid of evil and virtue' attributes a real property to a non-entity, which is itself a category error the Prāsaṅgika school explicitly rejects.
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    Sapaṇ begins the argument by quoting a wide range of authoritative sources to show that the “Sugata-matrix” is unchanging, that it is equivalent to the Dharmadhātu and the Tathāgata-nature, and that these are all completely devoid of evil and virtue, which are illusory constructions.[16] Near the end of the passage Sapaṇ recommends that the reader study, in particular, the Dharmodgata chapter of the Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Lines (I.137; Rhoton 2002: 58). That chapter teaches that suchnes
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    The Dharmadhātu is equivalent to the Sugata-matrix and Tathāgata-nature, which a...
    The Yogācāra tradition, particularly Asaṅga in the Mahāyānasaṃgraha, identifies ...
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