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'''Trikaya''' ({{Sanskrit|m., त्रिकाय}} ''trikāya'' "three-body") is, according to the three-body doctrine of [[Mahayana|Mahayana Buddhism]], a term for the three bodies that a high initiate, a [[Bodhisattva]], forms in the course of his development into a [[Buddha]]. In [[Vajrayna]] they are seen as different stages of development of an enlightened being. [[Rudolf Steiner]] described these three bodies in detail in his lectures on the [[Gospel of Luke]]:

* [[Dharmakaya]] ({{Sanskrit|धर्म काय}} "truth body, law body") is the name given to the body of a Bodhisattva through which he works on earth. The Bodhisattva, in whom an Archangel being works, is not fully incarnated in this body {{GZ||114|80ff}}. He is thus transcendent and immanent at the same time. An initiate who has a Dharma body has attained perfect dominion over his astral body and his etheric body, and can now transfer this to other people who have special future tasks, and form for himself a new etheric body and a new astral body. This was the case, for example, with Zarathustra, who handed over his etheric body to Moses and passed on his astral body to Hermes (Lit.: GA 110, p. 152).

* [[Sambhogakaya]] ({{Sanskrit|संभोगकाय}} "body of completion", "body of joy" or "body of bliss") is the name given to the transfigured body of a Buddha after he has ascended to Buddha-dignity through enlightenment ([[Bodhi]]) and now reaches up to the [[Nirvana plane]] with his consciousness. The Buddha's entry into [[Nirvana]] is the same as the [[transfiguration]], but with it he ends his efficacy, whereas that of the [[Christ]] actually only begins with it {{GZ||114|72}}.

* [[Nirmanakaya]] ({{Sanskrit|निर्माणकाय}} "manifested body", "emanation body", also translated as "living Buddha", is the supersensible body through which a [[Buddha]], after he has completed his last earthly incarnation and passed through death, from now on only works in earthly or astral form. In its highest form, the [[astral body]] is then completely transformed into [[Manas]] and the [[etheric body]] completely into [[Buddhi]] {{Lit|{{G|110|149ff}}, {{G|109|287}}}}.

== Literature ==
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Das Prinzip der spirituellen Ökonomie im Zusammenhang mit Wiederverkörperungsfragen'', [[GA 109]] (2000) {{Lectures|109}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Geistige Hierarchien und ihre Widerspiegelung in der physischen Welt'', [[GA 110]] (1991) {{Lectures|110}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Das Lukas-Evangelium'', [[GA 114]] (2001) {{Lectures|114}}

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