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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Dharmadhātujakāya (धर्मधातुजकाय) refers to a “body born of the absolute” according to appendix 1 of the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter XX). Accordingly, “We have already said that the Bodhisattva entering into the dharmavasthā, abiding in the avaivartikabhūmi, acquires a body born of the Absolute (dharmadhātujakāya) when his last fleshly body (māṃsakāya) is exhausted, because, although he has cut all the afflictions (kleśa), the perfuming (vāsanā) of the afflictions remains; thus he takes a dharmadhātujakāya, not an existence in the threefold world (traidhātukajāti)”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

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Partial matches: Kaya.

Full-text: Buddha.

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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

I. The two kinds of Buddha < [Part 3 - Bringing innumerable beings to abhisaṃbodhi]

Part 6 - Healing the sick and the unfortunate < [Chapter LI - Seeing all the Buddha Fields]

Appendix 3 - Why the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara is so named < [Chapter LII - Elimination of the Triple Poison]

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