84000 Glossary of Terms

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རྡོ་རྗེའི་ལུས། | Glossary of Terms

  • རྡོ་རྗེའི་ལུས།

  • rdo rje’i lus
  • vajra­kāya­śarīra
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  • 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).