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ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྫོགས་པའི་སྐུ། | Glossary of Terms
ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྫོགས་པའི་སྐུ།
longs spyod rdzogs pa’i sku
sambhogakāya
- Term
- Saṃbhogakāya
- ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྫོགས་པའི་སྐུ།
- longs spyod rdzogs pa’i sku
- saṃbhogakāya
“Body of enjoyment.” Aspect of buddhahood perceptible to bodhisattvas.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Saṃbhogakāya
- ལོངས་སྐུ།
- longs sku
- saṃbhogakāya
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Sambhogakāya
- ལོངས་སྐུ།
- longs sku
- sambhogakāya
“Body of bliss,” one of the three bodies of the Buddha.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Saṃbhogakāya
- ལོངས་སྦྱོད་རྫོགས་པའི་སྐུ།
- longs sbyod rdzogs pa’i sku
- saṃbhogakāya
The “body of bliss,” one of the three (sometimes four) bodies of the Buddha.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Sambhogakāya
- ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྫོགས་པའི་སྐུ།
- longs spyod rdzogs pa’i sku
- sambhogakāya
The “enjoyment body,” one of the three bodies of a buddha, refers to the way a buddha manifests for realized beings; this may be represented by different iconographic forms of deity figures.
- Body of enjoyment
- ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྫོགས་པའི་སྐུ།
- ལོངས་སྐུ།
- longs spyod rdzogs pa’i sku
- longs sku
- sambhogakāya
The luminous manifestation of the buddhas’ enlightened communication, perceptible to advanced bodhisattvas.
- Buddha body of perfect resource
- ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྫོགས་པའི་སྐུ།
- longs spyod rdzogs pa’i sku
- sambhogakāya
The buddha body of perfect resource denotes the luminous, immaterial, and unimpeded reflection-like forms of enlightened mind, which become spontaneously present and naturally manifest to tenth level bodhisattvas.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Enjoyment body
- ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྫོགས་པའི་སྐུ།
- longs spyod rdzogs pa’i sku
- saṃbhogakāya