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The '''four [[kaya]]s''' (Skt. ''catuḥkāya''; Tib. སྐུ་བཞི་,  ''ku shyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''sku bzhi'') are the
The '''four [[kaya]]s''' (Skt. ''catuḥkāya''; Tib. སྐུ་བཞི་,  ''ku shyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''sku bzhi'') are the


# [[dharmakaya]] ([[Wyl.]] ''chos kyi sku''),
# [[dharmakaya]] (Wyl. ''chos kyi sku''),
# [[sambhogakaya]] ([[Wyl.]] ''longs spyod rdzogs pa’i sku''),
# [[sambhogakaya]] (Wyl. ''longs spyod rdzogs pa’i sku''),
# [[nirmanakaya]] ([[Wyl.]] ''sprul pa’i sku''), and
# [[nirmanakaya]] [Wyl. ''sprul pa’i sku''), and
# [[svabhavikakaya]] ([[Wyl.]] ''ngo bo nyid kyi sku'').
# [[svabhavikakaya]] (Wyl. ''ngo bo nyid kyi sku'').


==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==

Revision as of 20:11, 28 April 2018

The four kayas (Skt. catuḥkāya; Tib. སྐུ་བཞི་, ku shyi; Wyl. sku bzhi) are the

  1. dharmakaya (Wyl. chos kyi sku),
  2. sambhogakaya (Wyl. longs spyod rdzogs pa’i sku),
  3. nirmanakaya [Wyl. sprul pa’i sku), and
  4. svabhavikakaya (Wyl. ngo bo nyid kyi sku).

Further Reading

  • Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Enlightened Courage—An Explanation of Atisha's Seven Point Mind Training, Padmakara Translation Group (Snow Lion Publications, 2006), pages 51-52.