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སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ། | Glossary of Terms
སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ།
sprul pa’i sku
nirmāṇakāya
- Term
- Nirmāṇakāya
- སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ།
- sprul pa’i sku
- nirmāṇakāya
“Body of manifestation.” Aspect of buddhahood perceptible to ordinary individuals with good karma.
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.
- Nirmāṇakāya
- སྤྲུལ་སྐུ།
- sprul sku
- nirmāṇakāya
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.
- Nirmāṇakāya
- སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ།
- sprul pa’i sku
- nirmāṇakāya
A body manifested by a tathāgata perceivable by ordinary senses; one of the two “form bodies” (rūpakāya).
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.
- Nirmāṇakāya
- སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ།
- sprul pa’i sku
- nirmāṇakāya
The “body of transformation,” one of the three (sometimes four) bodies of the Buddha.
- Emanation body
- སྤྲུལ་སྐུ།
- sprul sku
- nirmāṇakāya
- Emanation body
- སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ།
- sprul pa’i sku
- nirmāṇakāya
The aspect of the Buddha that appears to ordinary sentient beings.
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.
- Emanation body
- སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ།
- sprul pa’i sku
- nirmāṇakāya
- Body of emanation
- སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ།
- སྤྲུལ་སྐུ།
- sprul pa’i sku
- sprul sku
- nirmāṇakāya
The visible and usually physical manifestation of fully enlightened beings which arises spontaneously from the expanse of the body of reality, whenever appropriate, in accordance with the diverse dispositions of sentient beings.
- Buddha body of emanation
- སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ།
- sprul pa’i sku
- nirmāṇakaya
The buddha body of emanation is the visible and usually physical manifestation of fully enlightened beings which arises spontaneously from the expanse of the buddha body of reality, whenever appropriate, in accordance with the diverse dispositions of sentient beings.
- Emanated body
- སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ།
- sprul pa’i sku
- nirmāṇakāya
- 化現其身
- 化生身
The body of a buddha visible to ordinary sentient beings.
- Incarnation-body
- སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ།
- sprul pa’i sku
- nirmāṇakāya
See “emanated incarnation.”