>>7383370The Dharmakaya is the “Father,” the Supreme Being-Consciousness; the Sambhogakaya is the “Holy Spirit,” Blessing/Blissing Clear-Light-Energy; and the Nirmanakaya is the “Son,” the immanent Dharmakaya.
Although Enlightenment can be described in monadic terms--as simply awakening to, and as, the Dharmakaya, or Mind—it is my contention that only a triadic, or trinitarian, description can adequately explain the Buddhahood project. Just as the Trinity was a necessary development in Christianity to make clear how a transcendent God becomes an immanent Son, Man, or Christ, likewise the Trikaya emerged in Buddhism to clarify and elaborate how unmanifest Mind translates into a manifest Buddha, or Nirmanakaya.
In Reality, there is only the Dharmakaya, which is timeless, spaceless Mind, or Consciousness. But when the immutable Dharmakaya “moves” as dynamic Spirit, or Light-Energy, which en-Light-ens bodhisattvas, transforming them into Buddhas, then it is appropriate to describe this “action” of the Absolute as the Sambhogakaya, meaning the Dharmakaya in its phase or dimension as Divine Power. And when the Dharmakaya, as the Blessing Power of the Sambhogakaya, unobstructedly radiates through a human medium, it is right to describe the en-Light-ened form-body as a Nirmanakaya.
