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[[sku gsum]] - "The [[three kayas]] are the [[Dharmakaya]], the [[Sambhogakaya]], and the [[Nirmanakaya]].  The [[three kayas]] '''as ground''' are [[essence, nature, and capacity]]; '''as path''' these are [[bliss, clarity and nonthought]]; and '''as fruition''' these are the [[three kayas]] of [[buddhahood]].


"The [[three kayas]] of buddhahood are the [[dharmakaya]], which is free from elaborate constructs and endowed with the twenty-one sets of enlightened qualities;  the [[sambhogakaya]] which is of the nature of light and endowed with the perfect '''[[major and minor marks]]''' perceptible only to [[bodhisattva]]s; and the [[nirmanakaya]] which manifests in forms perceptible to both pure and impure beings".


[[jo bo rin po che]] - A buddha's [[sambhogakaya]] with the major and minor marks [IW]


de bzhin gshegs pa'i mtshan dpe - the major and minor marks of a tathagata [IW]
*aka [[karma'i mkhen chen rin chen dar rgyas]]
 
[['bras bu'i sku gsum]] - [[Three kayas]] of buddhahood. The [[dharmakaya]] is free from elaborate constructs and endowed with the '21 sets of enlightened qualities.' [[Sambhogakaya]] is of the nature of light and endowed with the perfect major and minor marks perceptible only to [[bodhisattvas]] on the [[bhumis]]. The [[nirmanakaya]] manifests in forms perceptible to both pure and impure beings [RY]
[[mtshan dang dpe byad]] - the major and minor marks; major and minor marks [RY]
 
[[mtshan dang dpe byad]] - major and minor marks of beauty [JV]
 
[[mtshan dang dpe byad ldan pa'i lha bskal pa 'bum du bsgom pa]] - to meditate for a hundred thousand kalpas on a deity with all the major and minor marks [RY]
 
[[mtshan dang dpe byad bzang po]] - major and minor marks [IW]
 
[[mtshan dpe]] - marks / 32 major and 80 minor marks or characteristics, the marks and signs, major and minor marks [RY]
 
[[mtshan dpe'i gzi byin]] - the majestic splendor of the marks and signs / major and minor marks [RY]
 
[[mtshan dpes brgyan pa]] - bearing the major and minor marks of Buddhahood [RY]
 
[[mtshan dpes brgyan pa]] - adorned with the major and minor marks [RY]
 
[[yi dam lha'i phyag chen kyi lus]] - [[Mahamudra]] form of the [[yidam]] deity. The attainment, chiefly through [[Mahayoga Tantra]], of the illusory [[wisdom body]] on the [[vidyadhara level]] of [[Mahamudra]] which corresponds to the [[path of cultivation]]. It is divine as it is the form of deity endowed with the complete [[major and minor marks]] and through which yogis/yoginis benefit beings in an extent equal to [[sambhogakaya]]. [RY]
 
[[ye shes bzhi]] - [[Four Kinds of Pristine Cognition]]. The outer, inner, and secret pristine cognitions which pertain respectively to the outer, inner and secret major and minor marks, and the [[pristine cognition of reality]] {[[de kho na nyid ye shes]]} which pertains to supreme marks of [[Great Perfection]] [RY]
 
[[mshan dang dpe byad]] - the major and minor marks [IW]
 
[[sangs rgyas kyi mtshan dpe]] - major and minor marks of a buddha [RY]
 
[[sangs rgyas sku gsum]] - [[Three kayas]] of buddhahood. The [[dharmakaya]] is free from elaborate constructs and endowed with the '21 sets of enlightened qualities.' [[Sambhogakaya]] is of the nature of light and endowed with the perfect major and minor marks perceptible only to [[bodhisattvas]] on the [[bhumis]]. The [[nirmanakaya]] manifests in forms perceptible to both pure and impure beings [RY]
 
 
 
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