tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University
Publication Year: 1965
Total Pages: 901
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Buddhism
world is a manifestation of it. The Dharmakāya is on the contrary, capable of willing and reflecting or to use Buddhist phraseology, it is Karunā (love) and bodhi (intelligence) and not the mere state of being."" The most well-known Mahāyāna philosophers Asanga and Vasubandhu describe the Dharmakāya as possessed of the following characteristics : (i) The Dharmakāya is free and absolutely unrivaled in its activities. It is unique and supreme. (ii) It is absolutely free from all intellectual and affective prejudices. (iii) All its activities are spontaneous and are not the outcome of any external compulsion. Its activities spring from its own will. (iv) It possesses all eternal virtues in their perfection. It serves as the ultimate norm of all the things and activities of the world. It represents the perfection of all things. (0) It is also the inexhaustible, physical and spiritual wealth. It possesses infinite varieties and richness, as it is in everything and everything is its manifestation, (vi) It also exhibits intellectual purity in being most universal and general; it is free from the onesidedness of particulars. (vii) It moves all the earthly beings towards itself in Nirvana. It represents the ultimate unity of all things.
The Dharmakāya is not an abstract metaphysical unity and a dry and bloodless entity, but it is a living thing possessing even certain emotions of love. Suzuki describes it-"But the Dharmakāya, infinite in love and goodness, is incessantly managing to bring this world-transaction to a happy terminus. ... Suzuki D. T. : Outlines of Mahāyāna Buddhism, p. 46.
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