Trikaya, Trikāya, Tri-kaya: 10 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchTrikāya (त्रिकाय):—(tri + kāya)
1) adj. drei Körper habend. —
2) m. ein Buddha [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 234.] [KÖPPEN], Rel. des Buddha [II, 124.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungTrikāya (त्रिकाय):—m. ein Buddha.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with: Trikayadhishthana, Trikayatmaka.
Ends with: Strikaya.
Full-text: Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya, Dharmakaya, Mahayanasamparigrahashastra, Tulku, Trulku, Mahayana, Kaya.
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Search found 12 books and stories containing Trikaya, Trikāya, Tri-kaya, Tri-kāya; (plurals include: Trikayas, Trikāyas, kayas, kāyas). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
The Great Chariot (by Longchenpa)
A. The teaching of the establishment of the kayas and wisdoms, by completing the path < [Chapter XIII - The Fruition, the Great Self-existence]
Part 4 - The instruction about defilement by mind-made meditation < [E. There is no realization by the words of doctrine]
Part 3a.3 - The conduct accompanying that < [B. The explanation of meditation practice, together with its action of ripening and freeing]
Buddha-nature (as Depicted in the Lankavatara-sutra) (by Nguyen Dac Sy)
4.2. Dharmakāya in the Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra < [Chapter 4 - The Thought of Buddha-Nature in the Laṅkāvatārasūtra]
4.1. Origin and Development of the Dharmakāya < [Chapter 4 - The Thought of Buddha-Nature in the Laṅkāvatārasūtra]
1. Early period (e): The Anuttarāśraya-sūtra < [Chapter 2 - The Buddha-Nature in the Tathāgatagarbha Literature]
The gods of northern Buddhism (by Alice Getty)
The 6th Patriarch Platform Sutra
Mahayana Buddhism and Early Advaita Vedanta (Study) (by Asokan N.)
Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Appendix 2 - Notes on the Buddha’s omniscience (sarvajñatā) < [Chapter I - Explanation of Arguments]
Appendix 4 - The brahmanical trimūrti (Śiva, Viṣṇu and Brahmā) < [Chapter IV - Explanation of the Word Bhagavat]
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