Dharmakaya
Dharmakaya (devanāgarī: धर्म काय dharmakāya) es una palabra Sanskrita que significa "Cuerpo de la Verdad" o "Cuerpo de la Realidad". En el Budismo Mahayana, es uno de los tres cuerpos (Trikayas) del Buda. El Dharmakaya constituye el aspecto inmanifestado e "inconcebible" de un Buda, del cual surgen los Budas y al cual retornan tras su disolución.
In Mahayana Buddhism
David Reigle wrote about the Buddhist concept of dharmakaya as follows:
The dharma-kāya, "dharma body" or "body of dharmas," is a kind of ultimate in Buddhism. . . . An authoritative description of it is given in the first verse of the Kāya-traya-stotra, "Praise of the Three Bodies," attributed to Nāgārjuna. . . . My English translation:
- What is not one and not many, is the great basis of perfect benefit for self and others, is not non-existent and not existent, is of the same taste like space, whose nature is hard to be realized, is stainless, is immutable, is quiescent, is equal to the unequaled, is [all-]pervading, is without diversification, is [only] to be known inwardly, I praise that incomparable dharma-kāya of the victors.[1]
In Theosophy
In Theosophical literature, the term dharmakāya has being used mainly in two ways: a) as a "glorified spiritual body", in terms of the Mahayana Buddhist teaching of the trikāya, and b) as a universally diffused essence, similar to the concept found in some schools of Vajrayana Buddhism.
In one instance Mme. Blavatsky used the term as an adjective, to point out to the quality of the intellect in which ālaya, the universal soul, can be reflected:
Ālaya, or Nying-po, being the root and basis of all, invisible and incomprehensible to human eye and intellect, it can reflect only its reflection—not Itself. Thus that reflection will be mirrored like the moon in tranquil and clear water only in the passionless Dharmakâya intellect, and will be distorted by the flitting image of everything perceived in a mind that is itself liable to be disturbed.[2]
Glorified spiritual body
In The Theosophical Glossary Mme. Blavatsky wrote:
- ↑ See "Dharmakāya ceased" by David Reigle
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Collected Writings vol. XIV (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1995), 439.
