Tibetan Buddhism There are numerous
Sambhogakāya realms almost as numerous as deities in Tibetan Buddhism. These
Sambhogakaya-realms are known as Buddha-fields or
Pure Lands. One manifestation of
Sambhogakaya in Tibetan Buddhism is the
rainbow body. This is where an advanced practitioner is walled up in a cave or sewn inside a small yurt-like tent shortly before death. For a period of a week or so after death, the practitioners' body transforms into a
Sambhogakaya (light body), leaving behind only hair and nails.
Lopön Tenzin Namdak as rendered by John Myrdhin Reynolds conveyed the relationship of the
mindstream (Sanskrit:
citta santana) of
Sambhogakaya that links
Dharmakaya with
Nirmanakaya.
Chan Buddhism In
Chan Buddhism (including Japanese
Zen), the Sambhogakāya, along with the
Dharmakāya and the
Nirmāṇakāya, are given metaphorical interpretations. In the
Platform Sutra,
Huineng describes the Sambhogakāya as a state in which the practitioner continually and naturally produces good thoughts: == See also ==