(Sanskrit) The "enjoyment body"; the form in which the enlightened mind appears in order to benefit highly realized bodhisattvas. One of the three bodies of a Buddha.
The 'body of perfect enjoyment.' Of the five kayas of fruition, this is the semi-manifest form of the buddhas endowed with the 'five perfections' of the perfect teacher, retinue, place, teaching, and time which is perceptable only to bodhisattvas on the ten bhumis.
(Skt.): Enjoyment/bliss Body of a BUDDHA. The physical (psychic) form of BUDDHA's WISDOM. The transformation result of speech, communication and LUNG. In TANTRA known as the VAJRA of speech or the Buddha's voice.
The "buddha-body of perfect resource"; the form in which the enlightened mind appears in order to benefit highly realized bodhisattvas. See also dharmakaya and nirmanakaya.
( Skt.): "body of perfect enjoyment." One of the trikaya, the three bodies of a buddha perceptible only to highly realized bodhisattvas that manifests in order to benefit sentient beings. The visionary and communicative aspect of buddha-nature.
The Body of Bliss, assumed by Buddhas when teaching Mahayana sutras to particular Bodhisattvas. The celestial aspect of the Buddhas.
(Skt) longs sku (Tib). See Kaya.
The SambhogakÄya (Sanskrit: "body of enjoyment", Tib: longs.sku) is the supramundane form that a fully enlightened Buddha appears in following the completion of his career as a Bodhisattva. This body is an ideal form, similar to that seen in Buddhist iconography and in meditational visualizations, of a human figure manifesting all of the thirty-two marks of a Buddha. The place where the SambhogakÄya body appears is an extra-cosmic realm called , similar to but perhaps distinct from the that is the highest realm of the ÅšuddhÄvÄsa devas.