Dhatu

"The Buddha-dhatu is the True Self and, like a diamond, for example, it cannot be destroyed". ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Eighth Karmapa, however, asserts that shravaka and pratyekabuddha aryas have this nonconceptual cognition of the voidness of only the five aggregate factors of experience (phung-po lnga, Skt. panca skandha; five aggregates), the twelve stimulators of cognition (skye-mched bcu-gnyis, Skt. dvadasha ayatana), and eighteen sources of cognition (khams bcu-brgyad, Skt. ashtadasha dhatu) associated with their own mental continuums, as well as of untainted true pathway minds (zag-med lam-bden; uncontanimated true paths). ❋ Unknown (2006)

Thus, the technical terms for Buddha-nature are the source (dhatu), the womb containing a Thusly Gone One (tathagata-garbha), the womb containing a Blissfully Gone One (sugata-garbha), and the Buddha family-trait (buddhagotra). ❋ Unknown (1982)

This is because it shows us, without any mistakes, those things that are imaginable and can be pondered and grasped by conceptual thinking, such as the five aggregate factors of our experience, the twelve stimulators (skye-mched bcu-gnyis, Skt. dvadasha ayatana) and eighteen sources (khams bcu-brgyad, Skt. ashtadasha dhatu) of our cognitions, the six far-reaching attitudes (six perfections), and so on. ❋ Unknown (1979)