Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00304)

Dallas,
Thanks as always for your posts. I have to admit I am confused by the 
following content:

" (1) This is an allusion to a well-known belief in the East (as in the
West, too, for the matter of that) that every additional Buddha or Saint
is a new soldier in the army of those who work for the liberation or
salvation of mankind. In Northern Buddhist countries, where the doctrine
of Nirmanakayas-those Bodhisattvas who renounce well-earned Nirvana or
the Dharmakaya vesture (both of which shut them out for ever from the
world of men) in order to invisibly assist mankind and lead it finally
to Paranirvana-is taught, every new Bodhisattva or initiated great Adept
is called the "liberator of mankind." The statement made by
Schlagintweit in his "Buddhism in Tibet" to the effect that Prulpai Ku
or "Nirmanakaya" is "the body in which the Buddhas or Bodhisattvas
appear upon earth to teach men"-is absurdly inaccurate and explains
nothing."

The reference to the Dharmakaya and Nirmanikaya is the part that
perhaps out of kilter here. there is no mention of the "Sambhogakaya"
the "Second Vesture" and, due to this it seems to me that the placing of
the Nirmanakaya as nop longer possible to have congress with man or
mankind is incorrect. It is the Dharmakaya anf Sambhogakaya that once
arrived have limit, while the Nirmanakaya is still with "Modes" as being
Subtle and can have manisfestation form as well as usage to indicate a
physical body. I don't really understand the confused rendition here as
footnote has it.

John 


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