The Buddhadharma-Buddha's teaching-is expansive and all-embracing. It encompasses all the phenomena in the mundane, the transmundane, and the mundane as well as transmundane world. Yet, the essence and core of the Buddha's teaching always rely on each sentient being's own true mind-the eighth consciousness Tathagatagarbha-as their basis. Sentient beings experience suffering because they do not understand the meritorious virtues and wondrous functions...