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Nirmāṇakāya

Nirmāṇakāya
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Overview

Nirmāṇakāya or

Nirmanakaya also known as the

Emanation body (Chinese: 應身; pinyin: yīngshēn; Tibetan: སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་, tulku, Wylie: sprul sku) is the third aspect of the trikāya and the physical manifestation of a Buddha in time and space. An example of a Nirmanakaya would be Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha who lived in India 2,500 years ago. In Vajrayāna Buddhism, the nirmanakaya is described as "the dimension of ceaseless manifestation".

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  1. Other methods of deliverance from evil are in the excessive acts of penance performed by the Indians, to which a retreat within themselves is added. Now when the Indian thus internally collects himself, and retreats within his own thoughts, the moment of such pure concentration is called Brahma, the one and the clearly supersensuous state, which the understanding calls the highest possible existence. When this is so…

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy

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  2. These actions do not depend on impact, or on a certain distance. They are termed “influence” (or “emanation”), on account of their similarity to a water-spring. The latter sends forth water in all directions, has no peculiar side for receiving or spending its contents; it springs forth on all sides, and continually waters both neighbouring and distant places.

    Moses Maimonides, The guide for the perplexed

    States what Nirmāṇakāya is.

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  3. At the place mentioned above of the six years' painful austerities, and at all these other places, men subsequently reared topes and set up images, which all exist at the present day. Where Buddha, after attaining to perfect Wisdom, for seven days contemplated the tree, and experienced the joy of vimukti; where, under the patra tree, he walked to and fro from west to east for seven days; where the…

    Confucius, Chinese literature

    Close in meaning to Nirmāṇakāya; the term itself is not named.

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Philosophers who discussed Nirmāṇakāya

Related ideas

Place in the tradition

Part of Monism.

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