dharmakaya
Buddha's formless essence
Dharmakaya is a Buddhist term for the ultimate, formless aspect of Buddha-nature—reality itself, beyond all particular forms and appearances.
In Mahayana Buddhism, it is one of three "bodies" of the Buddha, representing the truth body or essence that underlies all phenomena.
The dharmakaya is unborn, unchanging, and identical with enlightenment itself: Through meditation, one realizes the dharmakaya was never separate from one's own mind.
Intrinsic potential for awakening
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- absoluteTotal, without qualification
- unconditionedNot learned or taught
- formlessLacking definite shape
tathagatagarbha · nirvana · enlightenment · luminosity · boundlessness · unborn · deathless · infinite
Perceiving something as known
- restingIn a state of stillness
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- realizationGrasping what's true
- abidingContinuing without change
effortless · groundlessness · spaciousness · clarity · openness · practice · contemplation · samadhi
Something that flows out
- manifestationOutward display of something
- celestialOf the sky above
- MahayanaBuddhism stressing universal liberation
- ZenMeditative Buddhist school
realization · awakening · Buddhahood · liberation · teaching · transmission
Buddha-nature
Intrinsic potential for awakening
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- absoluteTotal, without qualification
- unconditionedNot learned or taught
formless · tathagatagarbha · nirvana · enlightenment · luminosity · boundlessness · unborn · deathless · infinite · transcendent
recognition
Perceiving something as known
- restingIn a state of stillness
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- realizationGrasping what's true
abiding · effortless · groundlessness · spaciousness · clarity · openness · practice · contemplation · samadhi · insight
emanation
Something that flows out
- manifestationOutward display of something
- celestialOf the sky above
- MahayanaBuddhism stressing universal liberation
Zen · realization · awakening · Buddhahood · liberation · teaching · transmission
- Buddha-naturetathagatagarbha, true nature, suchness, natural state, true self
- Mahayana Buddhismbodhisattva, emptiness, prajnaparamita, mind training, tathagatagarbha
- Buddhist HistoryBuddha, Mahayana, Theravada, councils, stupas