• The dharmakāya (Sanskrit: धर्म काय, "truth body" or "reality body", Chinese: 法身; pinyin: fǎshēn, Tibetan: ཆོས་སྐུ་, Wylie: chos sku) is one of the three...
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    between Buddha-nature, dharmadhatu, dharmakāya, rigpa and the Three Vajras: Dharmadhātu is adorned with Dharmakāya, which is endowed with Dharmadhātu Wisdom...
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    The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya Which Liberates Upon Seeing is located at Drala Mountain Center in Colorado, USA. It was built to inter the ashes of Chogyam...
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  • Sambhogakaya that links Dharmakaya with Nirmanakaya. In Chan Buddhism (Japanese Zen), the Sambhogakāya, along with the Dharmakāya and the Nirmāṇakāya, are...
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    Adi-Buddha (redirect from Dharmakaya Buddha)
    Buddha or the Primordial Buddha. Another common term for this figure is Dharmakāya Buddha. The term emerges in tantric Buddhist literature, most prominently...
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    Vairocana is often interpreted, in texts like the Avatamsaka Sutra, as the Dharmakāya of the historical Gautama Buddha. In East Asian Buddhism (Chinese, Korean...
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    “the original ground dharmakāya.” (薄伽梵即毘盧遮那本地法身, at Taisho no. 1796:39.580). According to Hakeda, Kūkai identified the Dharmakaya with "the eternal Dharma...
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    which is the Buddhic "Dharmakāya" (essence of Truth), which is yet temporarily sheathed in obscuring defilement. This Dharmakāya, when viewed as intrinsically...
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    two meanings, namely the nature of the Buddha, equivalent to the term dharmakāya, and the cause of the Buddha. The link between the cause and the result...
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    "first Buddha" Vairocana or Vajradhara, which is associated with the Dharmakāya. The Five Wisdom Buddhas are a development of the Buddhist Tantras, and...
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    the essential Buddha is equated with the transcendental Buddha called dharmakāya. In Mahāyāna, this eventually developed into the doctrine of the "Three...
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  • Nirmāṇakāya or "created body", Sambhogakāya or "body of bliss", and the Dharmakāya or "Truth body" Three-body problem, a problem in physics and classical...
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    direct experience of the very nature of reality, which is variously termed dharmakaya, buddha nature, or the "basis' (gzhi). These techniques do not rely on...
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    bodies" (saṃbhogakāya) are emanations from the ultimate Buddha body, the Dharmakaya, which is none other than the ultimate reality itself, i.e. emptiness...
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    to the Kagyu lineage, Buddhā Vajradhara is the primordial Buddha, the Dharmakaya Buddha. He is depicted as dark blue in color, expressing the quintessence...
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    qualities of the Adi-Buddha or "first Buddha", which is associated with the Dharmakāya. Some sources also include this "first Buddha" as a sixth Buddha along...
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    (Skt. nirmāṇakāya), while the essential real Buddha is equated with the Dharmakāya. As in Mahāyāna traditions, the Mahāsāṃghikas held the doctrine of the...
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    white. He is associated with the Dharmakaya. Kvaerne sees some similarities with Amitabha. Another important Dharmakaya deity is Kuntuzangpo (Samantabhadra...
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    mantra is nothing but the speech of the Buddha Mahavairocana, the "ground dharmakaya" which is the ultimate source of all reality. According to Kūkai, Shingon...
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    in Chinese and Korean Buddhism The Trikaya-formule, consisting of The Dharmakāya or Truth body which embodies the very principle of enlightenment and knows...
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    is as follows: Nirmanakaya (gross self), Sambhogakaya (subtle self), Dharmakaya (causal self), and Mahasukhakaya (non-dual self), each vaguely and indirectly...
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    in the simultaneity of the arising and dissolution in the expanse of dharmakāya, which is the unity of rigpa and śūnyatā." Nyingma Dzogchen texts use...
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    equates buddha nature with dharmakāya, liberation and with the Buddha (the Tathāgata): Hence [the dhātu] is the dharmakāya; it is the Tathāgata; it is...
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  • 1002/14651858.CD003388.pub4. PMC 6991463. PMID 24338345. Colgan, Dana Dharmakaya; Christopher, Michael; Michael, Paul; Wahbeh, Helané (1 April 2016). "The...
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    Dakinis and Protectors are the Saṅgha. And on the innermost level, the dharmakāya is the Buddha, the saṃbhogakāya is the Dharma, and the nirmāṇakāya is...
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    sku) or sambhogakāya, Shenlha Okar and the bönku (Wylie: bon sku) or dharmakāya, Tapihritsa. Schaik, Sam van. Tibet: A History. Yale University Press...
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  • dharmakāya, not separate from the dharmakāya is the sattvadhātu. The sattvadhātu of beings is precisely the dharmakāya, the dharmakāya is precisely the sattvadhātu...
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  • kōan, are used to awaken the first insight into sunyata. They reveal the dharmakaya, or Fundamental. They introduce "the undifferentitated and the unconditional"...
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  • then discusses the terms that Buddhism uses in place of "God" such as Dharmakaya, Buddha or Adi-Buddha, and Tathagata.[citation needed] Panentheism is...
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    ὁ τετραπρόσωπος πατήρ τοῦ μεγέθους; Chinese: 四寂法身; lit. 'Four Silent Dharmakayas') Divinity (Middle Persian: yzd; Parthian: bg'; Chinese: 清净) Light (Middle...
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