Sambhogakaya
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Sambhogakaya (devanāgarī: सम्भोगकाय saṃbhogakāya) is a Sanskrit word meaning "body of enjoyment." In Mahayana Buddhism it is one of the three bodies (Trikayas) of the Buddha, through which Buddhas and advanced bodhisattvas can manifest themselves in a pure buddha realm.
In Theosophy
In The Theosophical Glossary Mme. Blavatsky wrote:
One of the three "Vestures" of glory, or bodies, obtained by ascetics on the "Path". Some sects hold it as the second, while others as the third of the Buddhakshetras, or forms of Buddha. Lit., the "Body of Compensation" (See Voice of the Silence, Glossary iii). Of such Buddhakshetras there are seven, those of Nirmanakāya, Sambhogakāya and Dharmakāya, belonging to the Trikāya, or three-fold quality.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 287.
