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'''[[rainbow body]]''' ([['ja' lus]]).
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[[sems can]], [['gro ba]], [[yid can]]
  
*At the time of death of a practitioner who has reached the exhaustion of all [[grasping and fixation]] through the [[Dzogchen]] practice of [[Tögal]], the five gross elements which form the physical body, dissolve back into their essences, five-colored light. Sometimes only the hair and the nails are left behind. [RY]
 
  
*See also: [[Rainbow Body of Great Transformation]] ([['ja' lus 'pho ba chen po]]).
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[[Sentient Being]] ([[sems can]]). Any living being in one of the six realms who has not attained liberation. [RY]
 
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Sentient beings (sattva, [[sems can]]; also jagat, [['gro ba]]). Any beings who have not yet attained Buddhahood. [RY]
 
 
 
 
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sems can, 'gro ba, yid can


Sentient Being (sems can). Any living being in one of the six realms who has not attained liberation. [RY] Sentient beings (sattva, sems can; also jagat, 'gro ba). Any beings who have not yet attained Buddhahood. [RY]