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Dharmakaya (Dharmakāya)

(Language: Sanskrit)

Alternate Spellings: Dhamma-kaya

Short Description: Literally, “dharma body”; in Mahāyāna Buddhism, the supreme and non-manifest form of the Buddhas, personified as the Ādi-Buddha

Long Description: literally, “dharma body”; in Mahāyāna Buddhism, the supreme and non-manifest form of the Buddhas, personified as the Ādi-Buddha.

Sources: Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life