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The omniscient mind of a Buddha is called a Dharmakaya, a Corpus Encompassing Everything.
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Without leaving the state of voidness (emptiness), which is to say the Dharmakaya as omniscient awareness of the inseparable two truths, Buddhas manifest as yidams to benefit beings with limited minds (limited beings, sentient beings).
Commentary on An Aspiration Prayer for the Definitive Meaning of Mahamudra ��� 1 Obtaining the Necessities for Practice Beru Khyentse Rinpoche 2006
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Rinpoche: The Dharmakaya is the omniscient mind of a Buddha that encompassing everything.
General Introduction to the Initial Scope Teachings of the Graded Path (Lam-rim) ��� Day Two: Karma and Refuge Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I 1980
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"Dharmakaya" is a Sanskrit word meaning "body of reality, or truth" which speaks to the pure essence of a being who has awakened to its Buddha Nature.
Visual-Voice Susan 2010
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Turning back, as we started, to the basic differentiated aspects of body and consciousness, we might also remind ourselves that the Buddha was considered to have three bodies or kayas: Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, and Nirmanakaya.
Kurt Barstow - The extended you: body, mind, and spirit William Harryman 2009
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Likewise, if we expand our mind out to the Dharmakaya, a Corpus Encompassing Everything, which is the actual reality of all phenomena – and if we think of the Dharmakaya in that manner – we can remove all the stains that obscure the true nature of reality.
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In other words, the crest and highpoint of our perceptive and cognitive life is thrown outward upon the heavens and branded as Holy—whether this is interpreted as angry Jehovah or the serene Dharmakaya of Mahayana Buddhism.
Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos By Jonathan Weidenbaum William Harryman 2009
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But, in a nutshell, Dharmakaya or Dharma Body is the body of absolute truth, the Buddha at the center of the universe, the unmanifest, formless, and eternal, ever-available body.
Kurt Barstow - The extended you: body, mind, and spirit William Harryman 2009
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Thus, that is (a state of) having met, face to face, (the essential nature of the mind) as being Dharmakaya, a unified pair of appearance and voidness.
Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Unawareness ��� Part Three: Vipashyana Meditation the Ninth Karmapa Wangchug-dorjey 2008
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It is a great state beyond the intellect, yet, although the trio: mind, conceptual thought, and Dharmakaya, have abided simultaneously from the start, yet because that is not realized, now it is indicated with guideline instructions by the gurus as something that has been blended into one as an inseparable unified triad.
Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Unawareness ��� Part Four: Enhancing Your Practice the Ninth Karmapa Wangchug-dorjey 2008
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