The svabhāva（self-nature） has positive and negative both meanings in Buddhist philosophy. However the interpretation of svabhāva taken a positive or negative meaning has become one of the fundamental problems of Buddhist texts. Which the svabhāva in Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra and Mūlamadhyamaka-kārikā all were taken negative meaning. But after then, the svabhāva was transferred to positive meaning, even was equal to buddha-nature in the Tathāgatagarbha texts. Hereafter, except the Tathāgatagarbha texts, svabhāva also has been explained positive meaning in other texts. For example, the Mūlamadhyamaka-vṛtti-prasannapadā, which was worte Candrakīrti（A.D.600-650） discripted that the nature of things（dharma）、nature（prakṛti）、emptiness（śūnyatā）、self（svabhāva）、and non-self-nature（nihsvabhāva） all are synonyms actually. Until now, we don't know when the meaning of self-nature has been changed. But on this article, I will indicate Lankāvatāra-sūtra（about 4-5 centuries, the rest omitted as LAS） has actually appeared both positive and negative meanings on self-nature. Anyway, that is exactly the unique style of LAS, which the two concepts of contradiction will be to one, and named as the pratyātmagati-（means subjective wisdom）, or pratyātmagatigocara（means objective things）.
