【tathata^
】 'Suchness', designates the firmly fixed nature (bha^va) of all things whatever. The only passage in the Canon where the word occurs in this sense, is found in Kath. 186 (s. Guide, p. 83). On the Maha^yana term tathata^, s. Suzuki, Awakening of Faith, p. 53f. (App.).
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