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sambhogakaya. (IW)

sambhogakaya; body of perfect enjoyment, body of complete enjoyment. body of perfect rapture. perfect enjoyment of the richness of being as a stratum of enlightened being. (RY)

sambhogakaya; dimension of the perfect enjoyment of the richness of being. (RB)

Sambhogakaya. The 'body of perfect enjoyment.' In the context of the 'five kayas of fruition,' sambhogakaya is the semi-manifest form of the buddhas endowed with the 'five perfections' of perfect teacher, retinue, place, teaching and time which is perceptible only to bodhisattvas on the ten levels. (see bhumis). (RY)