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| '''Dharmakāya''' (devanāgarī: धर्म काय) is a [[Sanskrit]] word meaning "truth body" or "reality body". In Mahayana Buddhism it is one of the three bodies (Trikayas) of the [[Buddha]]. Dharmakaya constitutes the unmanifested, "inconceivable" aspect of a Buddha, out of which Buddhas arise and to which they return after their dissolution.
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| == In Mahayana Buddhism ==
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| Buddhas are manifestations of the dharmakaya called nirmanakaya (Skt: Transformation body). One Buddhist scholar writes of it as: 'the body of reality itself, without specific, delimited form, wherein the Buddha is identified with the spiritually charged nature of everything that is.'[1]
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| == In Theosophy ==
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| In one of the [[Mahatma Letter No. 67|Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett]] Dharmakāya is defined as "the mystic, universally diffused essence", and is identified with Yin Sin ("the one form of existence") and also [[Ādi-Buddha|"Adi-Buddhi"]]<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 67 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 182.</ref>
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| == Notes ==
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| ==Further reading==
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| [[Category:Sanskrit terms]]
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| [[Category:Buddhist concepts]]
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| [[Category:Theosophical concepts]]
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| [[Category:Concepts in The Secret Doctrine]]
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