He was considered as a feminist writer and the theoriser of " DIDIGA " esthethics
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In the " sagathakam " section of that same sutra, however, the Tathagatagarbha as the Self is not denied, but affirmed : " The " Atma " [ Self ] characterised with purity is the state of self-realization; this is the Tathagata's Womb ( " garbha " ), which does not belong to the realm of the theorisers . " In the Buddha nature class of sktras, the word " self " ( " tman " ) is used in a way defined by and specific to these sktras . ( See Atman ( Buddhism ) .)