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གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ། | Glossary of Terms
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གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ།
- gzugs kyi sku
- rūpakāya
- Term
- form body
- གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ།
- gzugs kyi sku
- rūpakāya
The visible form of a buddha that is perceived by other beings, in contrast to his “dharma body,” the dharmakāya, which is the eternal, imperceptible realization of a buddha.
- form body
- གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ།
- gzugs kyi sku
- rūpakāya
The form or physical body of a buddha, as opposed to the Dharma body or dharmakāya. In Buddhist philosophy, the form body was eventually divided into two kinds: the nirmāṇakāya (“emanation body”), which is a physical body, and the saṃbhogkāya (“enjoyment body”), which is an immaterial body seen only by enlightened beings.
- form body
- གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ།
- gzugs kyi sku
- rūpakāya
The visible form of a buddha that is perceived by other beings, in contrast to his “Dharma body,” the dharmakāya, which is his awakening.
- form body
- གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ།
- gzugs kyi sku
- rūpakāya
The visible form of a buddha that is perceived by other beings, in contrast to his “dharma body,” the dharmakāya, which is the eternal, imperceptible realization of a buddha.
- rūpakāya
- གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ།
- gzugs kyi sku
- rūpakāya
“Form body.” The visible form of a buddha that is perceived by other beings.
- rūpakāya
- གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ།
- gzugs kyi sku
- rūpakāya
“Form body.” The visible form of a buddha that is perceived by other beings, in contrast to his “Dharma body,” the dharmakāya, which is his enlightenment.
- rūpakāya
- གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ།
- gzugs kyi sku
- rūpakāya
Used to refer to the two form bodies of the Buddha, i.e., the nirmāṇakāya and the saṃbhogakāya.
- body of form
- གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ།
- gzugs kyi sku
- rūpakāya
- 色身
The dimension of a buddha that corresponds to relative truth and is perceptible to either ordinary beings (nirmāṇakāya) or sublime beings (saṃbhogakāya).
- buddha body of form
- གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ།
- gzugs kyi sku
- rūpakāya
According to the Lesser Vehicle, the buddha body of form refers to the thousand buddhas of the Auspicious Eon, including Śākyamuni. In the Great Vehicle, however, the term includes both the buddha body of perfect resource which appears in a pure light form to tenth level bodhisattvas and the buddha body of emanation which manifests physically for the sake of all beings.
- form bodies
- གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ།
- gzugs kyi sku
- rūpakāya
See “rūpakāya.”