sentient beings

rainbow body ('ja' lus).

• 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).