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This essay is an attempt to hypothesize the original Sanskrit word and general idea behind Xíngxìng (行性) in the Dacheng yizhang (大乗義章) written by Huìyuan (慧遠).
The original word behind Xíngxìng is equivalent to vrtti of tathagatagarbha's category No. 6 in Ratnagotravibhaga (宝性論), and the idea of Xíngxìng is the rolling dhatu (性) into the three characters, that prthagjana (凡夫), arya (聖人) and sambuddha (如来). (This dhatu is one dad only existence for these characters)
Later, the monks of the Faxiang sect (法相宗)changed the meaning of Xíngxìng from dhatu to gotra (種性), and gave the word Lixing (理性) to dhatu.
The original meanig of Xíngxìng was disappeared and the monks of the Faxiang sect could keep the thought of tathagatagarbha at a distance.
