It is referred to by several analogous terms from Mahayana Buddhist philosophy, such as tathātā (reality "as-it-is"), śūnyatā (emptiness), pratitya-samutpada (dependent co-arising) and eternal Buddha.
[citation needed] When the buddha-nature has been realised, dharmadhatu is also referred to as the Dharmakāya, the Body of Dharma Truth.
737~838) and Tsung-mi (780~841).The Śrīmālādevī Sūtra (3rd century CE[3]), also named The Lion's Roar of Queen Srimala, centers on the teaching of the tathagatagarbha as "ultimate soteriological principle".
[4] It states that the tathagata-garbha is the "embryo" of the Dharmadhatu and the Dharmakaya:[5] Lord, the Tathagatagarbha is neither self nor sentient being, nor soul, nor personality.
The Tathagatagarbha is not the domain of beings who fall into the belief in a real personality, who adhere to wayward views, whose thoughts are distracted by voidness.