Buddha and the 8 Gates

Do not suppose that resurrection is an illusion. It is not an illusion - rather it is something real. Instead, one ought to maintain that the world is an illusion, rather than the resurrection. - The Treatise of the Resurrection, Nag Hammadi library.

The Eight Gates of the Gnostics and their spiritual ancestors, the Pagans, is found in the seven chakras of Kundalini, the 7 steps that lead to the 8th Gate.

The quote above is similar to Buddhist idea of the world as an illusion. That which is real is resurrection to the Gnostic - to the Buddhist Buddha Nature is within from birth, just as the resurrection is.

Thus Buddha Nature is the Buddhist analog to the concept of being born again .