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Buddha-nature, an Uncommon card
In Buddhist philosophy and soteriology, Buddha-nature is the innate potential for all sentient beings to become a Buddha or the fact that all sentient beings already have a pure Buddha-essence within themselves.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 88
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 183
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 47,000
Power 183 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Buddha-nature quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Buddha-nature card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Tathāgatagarbha can mean "the womb" or "embryo" of the "thus-gone one", and can also mean "containing a ______".
Answer
tathāgata. Tathāgatagarbha can mean "the womb" or "embryo" of the "thus-gone one", and can also mean "containing a tathāgata". From the Buddha-nature article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Beijing Subway. Beijing Subway 140,000 · Alberto Ascari 99,000 · João Pessoa, Paraíba 61,000 · Buddha-nature 47,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- "Buddha-nature" is the common English translation for several related Mahāyāna Buddhist terms, most notably tathāgatagarbha and buddhadhātu, but also sugatagarbha, and buddhagarbha.
- Tathāgatagarbha can mean "the womb" or "embryo" of the "thus-gone one", and can also mean "containing a tathāgata".
- Buddhadhātu can mean "buddha-element", "buddha-realm", or "buddha-substrate".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Buddha-nature article was read about 47,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 88 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Buddha-nature
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Buddha-nature (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : BLM Nevada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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