Dharmakāya

In the Buddhist thought, the Dharmakâya , body of the law , is one of the Trikâya, the three bodies of the Bouddha, its ultimate body, that only the waked up beings can perceive.

Tibetan: Chos-kyi-shu ; Faded: Dhammakaya ; Chinese: Fashen 法身 ; Japanese: Hosshin

In old Buddhism

In the gun faded a dhammakaya is mentioned: it is about the corpus of the lesson and not of a body strictly speaking. There remains after the death of a Bouddha, since it is still possible to benefit from the lesson which them, remain.

According to the school Sarvastivadin, the dharmakaya is a body of pure phenomena: the “dharmakaya with the five members”, made up of five supramundane aggregates.

In the Mahâyâna

It is the body of gasoline , the spiritual body or luminous spirit , purified of all forms of sufferings. All the aggregates are pure, the body and the spirit is not dissociated any more, they form a whole in which any form of duality disappeared.

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