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Corpus of Essential Nature

TECHNICAL TERM DETAILS (English)

Term Corpus of Essential Nature

Referenced by:
Body of Essential Nature (alternative term)
Nature Body (alternative term)
Svabhavakaya (alternative term)
Tibetan ngo-bo-nyid sku
Sanskrit svabhavakaya
Pali
Definition (1) In the Gelug non-Kalachakra system, the voidness of a Buddha's omniscient mind and its state of being parted from the two sets of obscurations. (2) In the Gelug Kalachakra system, the blissful awareness aspect of a Buddha's omniscient mind. (3) In the Non-Gelug systems, the inseparability of all the Corpuses of a Buddha - equivalent to the inseparability of the two truths. Also called: Body of Essential Nature, Nature Body.

TRANSLATIONS

German Körper der essentiellen Natur
Italian Corpo di Natura Essenziale
Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... Nature Body [of a Buddha]; Nature Truth Body
Russian тело сущностной природы
Vietnamese Tự Tánh thân