The Trikāya doctrine (Sanskrit, literally `Three bodies`; 三身 Chinese: Sānshēn Vietnamese: Tam thân, Japanese: Sanjin or Sanshin, {bo|t=སྐུ་གསུམ|w=sku gsum}) is a Mahayana Buddhist teaching on both the nature of reality and the nature of the Buddha. ==Definition== The doctrine says that a Buddha has three kāyas or bodies:.....
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(Sanskrit: `three bodies`), in Mahyna Buddhism, the concept of the three bodies, or modes of being, of the Buddha: the dharmakaya (body of essence), ... [2 related articles]
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