རྡོ་རྗེའི་ལུས། | Glossary of Terms

རྡོ་རྗེའི་ལུས།

rdo rje’i lus

vajrakāyaśarīra

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vajra body

The Questions of Dīrghanakha the Wandering Mendicant

vajra body

རྡོ་རྗེའི་ལུས།

rdo rje’i lus

vajrakāyaśarīra

Definition in this text:

The body of the Buddha is like an indestructible vajra. While the term vajrakāya has specialized meaning in a tantric context, it is unlikely that such meaning is applicable here. In the Chinese, the term is translated as a “vajra-like, indestructible solid body” (jin gang bu huai jian gu zhi shen 金剛不壞堅固之身).

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