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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Shingon Buddhism (section The Dharmakaya Mahāvairocana)
“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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Vajradhara (section Dharmakaya as part of the Trikaya)
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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