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[[Image:Samantabhadra.jpg|thumb|The Dharmakaya Buddha [[Samantabhadra]]]]'''Dharmakaya''' (Skt. ''dharmakāya''; Tib. ''chö ku''; [[Wyl.]] ''chos sku'') — ‘the Absolute or Truth [[kaya|Body]]’. Upon the attainment of [[buddhahood]], [[enlightenment]] manifests at three levels, which are known as the three bodies of the [[Buddha]]: the Absolute or Truth Body, or dharmakaya; the Enjoyment Body, or [[sambhogakaya]]; and the Emanation Body, or [[nirmanakaya]]. | [[Image:Samantabhadra.jpg|thumb|The Dharmakaya Buddha [[Samantabhadra]]]] | ||
'''Dharmakaya''' (Skt. ''dharmakāya''; Tib. ''chö ku''; [[Wyl.]] ''chos sku'') — ‘the Absolute or Truth [[kaya|Body]]’. Upon the attainment of [[buddhahood]], [[enlightenment]] manifests at three levels, which are known as the three bodies of the [[Buddha]]: the Absolute or Truth Body, or dharmakaya; the Enjoyment Body, or [[sambhogakaya]]; and the Emanation Body, or [[nirmanakaya]]. | |||
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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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==Further Reading== | |||
*[[Thinley Norbu]], ''The Small Golden Key'' (Shambhala Publications, 1999), ‘14. Dharmakāya’. | |||
==Internal Links== | ==Internal Links== | ||
Revision as of 19:18, 18 March 2010
Dharmakaya (Skt. dharmakāya; Tib. chö ku; Wyl. chos sku) — ‘the Absolute or Truth Body’. Upon the attainment of buddhahood, enlightenment manifests at three levels, which are known as the three bodies of the Buddha: the Absolute or Truth Body, or dharmakaya; the Enjoyment Body, or sambhogakaya; and the Emanation Body, or nirmanakaya.
Sogyal Rinpoche writes:
- Absolute nature is the dharmakaya, the ‘empty’, unconditioned truth, into which illusion and ignorance, and any kind of concept, have never entered.[1]
'Dharmakaya' is also the eighth of the eight topics of the Abhisamayalankara. See Resultant Dharmakaya.
Notes
- ↑ The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying revised and updated edition (HarperSanFrancisco and London: Rider, 2002), page 347.
Further Reading
- Thinley Norbu, The Small Golden Key (Shambhala Publications, 1999), ‘14. Dharmakāya’.