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Sambhogakaya is something like the Bliss Body or Body of Perfect Enjoyment.
Kurt Barstow - The extended you: body, mind, and spirit William Harryman 2009
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(Sambhogakaya) suble forms of physical expression verbal communication
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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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By contrast, the enlightening physical appearances of Sambhogakaya and Nirmanakaya are still on the level of the subtlest mind and energy-wind, as is the case with Dharmakaya.
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Sambhogakaya is a subtle manifestation of a corpus of forms out of this foundation and a Nirmanakaya is a corpus of grosser emanations of those subtle forms.
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This part of the analogy is not exact, since Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, and Nirmanakaya are simultaneous, not sequential.
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Being in the elevator going up to the palace is Sambhogakaya, and being in the palace chamber is Nirmanakaya.
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Sambhogakaya, the subtler of the two, is a Corpus Making Full Use – specifically, a network of physical forms making full use of the Mahayana teachings.
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The countless number of physical forms in which a Buddha appears is of two types: Sambhogakaya and Nirmanakaya.
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They comprise emanations of Sambhogakaya in grosser enlightening forms, such that ordinary persons with the karma to meet them are able to receive teachings from them.
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