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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Kāyasukha (कायसुख) refers to “bodily pleasures”, according to  the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter 1.—Accordingly: There are people who could be saved, but who sometimes fall into the two extremes, whether, out of ignorance, they seek only bodily pleasures (kāyasukha), or whether, by the path of activity, they give themselves up to asceticism. From the absolute point of view, these people lose the right path of nirvāṇa. In order to extirpate these twofold extremes and introduce people into the middle path, the Buddha preaches the Mahāprajñāpāramitā. [...]

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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.

Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Google Books: An Illustrated History of the Mandala

Kāyasukha (कायसुख, “physical happiness”) refers to one of the Seventeen Viśuddhipadas (“stations of purity”) and is associated with the deity Hemantavajrī, according to the Prajñāpāramitānayasūtra: an ancient Buddhist Tantric text recited daily in the Japanese Shingon sect which is closely related to the Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha.—The visualization of the seventeen-deity maṇḍala, representing the deification of the seventeen Viśuddhipadas [e.g., kāyasukha], was thought to facilitate the attainment of enlightenment through the sublimation of the defilements into the mind of enlightenment (bodhicitta).

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

Languages of India and abroad

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Kāyasukha (ಕಾಯಸುಖ):—[noun] the physical comfort; carnal pleasure.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Sukha, Kaya.

Full-text: Vajragandha, Hemantavajri, Vishuddhipada.

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