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'''Nirmanakaya''' (Skt. '' | [[Image:Buddha12deeds.jpg|frame|The [[Twelve deeds]] of the supreme nirmanakaya [[Buddha]]]] | ||
'''Nirmanakaya''' (Skt. ''nirmāṇakāya''; Tib. [[སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་]], ''tulku'', [[Wyl.]] ''sprul sku''), or 'the dimension of ceaseless manifestation'<ref>Sogyal Rinpoche, ''[[The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying]]'', page 347.</ref>, is defined as a [[rupakaya]] or 'form [[kaya|body]]' that arises from the ruling condition of the [[sambhogakaya]] and appears as the tamer of various beings, both pure and impure. | |||
When it is divided, there are four kinds: | When it is divided, there are four kinds: | ||
#'''Nirmanakaya through birth''', such as | #'''Nirmanakaya through birth''', such as [[Shakyamuni Buddha]] who previously took birth in the heaven of [[Tushita]] as the son of the [[gods]], [[Shvetaketu]] (Skt. ''Śvetaketu''; Tib. ''Dampa Tok Karpo''). | ||
#'''Supreme nirmanakaya''', such as | #'''[[Supreme nirmanakaya]]''' (Skt. ''uttamanirmāṇakāya''; Tib. མཆོག་གི་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་, Wyl. ''mchog gi sprul sku''), such as Shakyamuni Buddha who displayed the [[twelve deeds]] here in [[Jambudvipa]]. | ||
#'''Diverse nirmanakaya''' that manifest in order to tame various beings from [[Indra]] to a young girl. | #'''Diverse nirmanakaya''' (Skt. ''janmanirmāṇakāya''; Tib. སྐྱེ་བ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ, Wyl. ''skye ba sprul sku'') that manifest in order to tame various beings from [[Indra]] to a young girl. | ||
#'''Craft nirmanakaya''' such as the manifestation of the lute player in order to tame the [[gandharva]] Rabga, and as good food, bridges, pleasure gardens, and islands, as well as sculpted forms, paintings, woven images and cast metal statues. | #'''Craft nirmanakaya''' (Skt. ''śilpanirmāṇakāya'' or ''śilpinnirmāṇakāya''; Tib. བཟོ་བོ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་, Wyl. ''bzo bo sprul sku'') such as the manifestation of the lute player in order to tame the [[gandharva]] Rabga, and as good food, bridges, pleasure gardens, and islands, as well as sculpted forms, paintings, woven images and cast metal statues. | ||
Or, as [[Sogyal Rinpoche]] writes: | |||
:In [[Tibetan Buddhism]] the nirmanakaya is envisioned as the manifestation of [[enlightenment]], in an infinite variety of forms and ways, in the physical world. It is traditionally defined in three ways. | |||
:*One is the manifestation of a completely realized Buddha, such as Gautama Siddhartha, who is born into the world and teaches in it; | |||
:*another is a seemingly ordinary being who is blessed with a special capacity to benefit others: a [[tulku]]; and | |||
:*the third is actually a being through whom some degree of enlightenment works to benefit and inspire others through various arts, crafts, and sciences. In their case this enlightened impulse is, as [[Kalu Rinpoche]]<ref>Kalu Rinpoche, ''The Dharma'' (Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1986), page 59.</ref> says, "a spontaneous expression, just as light radiates spontaneously from the sun without the sun issuing directives or giving any conscious thought to the matter. The sun is, and it radiates."<ref>Sogyal Ripoche, ''The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying'', page 355.</ref> | |||
==Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha== | |||
*[[Garchen Rinpoche]], Rigpa Berlin centre, 4 October 2008, 10am | |||
*[[Khandro Rinpoche]], [[Dharma Mati]], Berlin, Germany, 24 April 2018 | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
<small><references/></small> | <small><references/></small> | ||
==Further Reading== | |||
*[[Khenpo Ngawang Palzang]], ''[[A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher]]'', Shambhala, 2004, pages 103-104. | |||
==Internal Links== | |||
*[[natural nirmanakaya]] | |||
[[Category:Key Terms]] | [[Category:Key Terms]] | ||
[[Category:Sanskrit Terms]] | |||
[[category:Kayas]] | |||
Latest revision as of 15:28, 20 March 2022
Nirmanakaya (Skt. nirmāṇakāya; Tib. སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་, tulku, Wyl. sprul sku), or 'the dimension of ceaseless manifestation'[1], is defined as a rupakaya or 'form body' that arises from the ruling condition of the sambhogakaya and appears as the tamer of various beings, both pure and impure.
When it is divided, there are four kinds:
- Nirmanakaya through birth, such as Shakyamuni Buddha who previously took birth in the heaven of Tushita as the son of the gods, Shvetaketu (Skt. Śvetaketu; Tib. Dampa Tok Karpo).
- Supreme nirmanakaya (Skt. uttamanirmāṇakāya; Tib. མཆོག་གི་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་, Wyl. mchog gi sprul sku), such as Shakyamuni Buddha who displayed the twelve deeds here in Jambudvipa.
- Diverse nirmanakaya (Skt. janmanirmāṇakāya; Tib. སྐྱེ་བ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ, Wyl. skye ba sprul sku) that manifest in order to tame various beings from Indra to a young girl.
- Craft nirmanakaya (Skt. śilpanirmāṇakāya or śilpinnirmāṇakāya; Tib. བཟོ་བོ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་, Wyl. bzo bo sprul sku) such as the manifestation of the lute player in order to tame the gandharva Rabga, and as good food, bridges, pleasure gardens, and islands, as well as sculpted forms, paintings, woven images and cast metal statues.
Or, as Sogyal Rinpoche writes:
- In Tibetan Buddhism the nirmanakaya is envisioned as the manifestation of enlightenment, in an infinite variety of forms and ways, in the physical world. It is traditionally defined in three ways.
- One is the manifestation of a completely realized Buddha, such as Gautama Siddhartha, who is born into the world and teaches in it;
- another is a seemingly ordinary being who is blessed with a special capacity to benefit others: a tulku; and
- the third is actually a being through whom some degree of enlightenment works to benefit and inspire others through various arts, crafts, and sciences. In their case this enlightened impulse is, as Kalu Rinpoche[2] says, "a spontaneous expression, just as light radiates spontaneously from the sun without the sun issuing directives or giving any conscious thought to the matter. The sun is, and it radiates."[3]
Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha
- Garchen Rinpoche, Rigpa Berlin centre, 4 October 2008, 10am
- Khandro Rinpoche, Dharma Mati, Berlin, Germany, 24 April 2018
Notes
- ↑ Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, page 347.
- ↑ Kalu Rinpoche, The Dharma (Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1986), page 59.
- ↑ Sogyal Ripoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, page 355.
Further Reading
- Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher, Shambhala, 2004, pages 103-104.