檢視 Nirmanakaya 化身（佛）的原始碼

[[Image:Buddha12deeds.jpg|frame|The [[Twelve deeds]] of the supreme nirmanakaya [[Buddha]]]]
'''Nirmanakaya''' (Skt. ''nirmāṇakāya''; Tib. [[སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་]], ''tulku''; [[Wyl.]] ''sprul sku''), or 'the dimension of ceaseless manifestation'<ref>Sogyal Rinpoche, ''[[The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying]]'', page 347.</ref>, is defined as a [[rupakaya]] or 'form [[kaya|body]]' that arises from the ruling condition of the [[sambhogakaya]] and appears as the tamer of various beings, both pure and impure.

When it is divided, there are four kinds:

#'''Nirmanakaya through birth''', such as our teacher taking birth in the heaven of [[Tushita]] as the son of the [[gods]], Dampa Tok Karpo.
#'''[[Supreme nirmanakaya]]''' (Skt. ''uttamanirmāṇakāya''; Tib. མཆོག་གི་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་, Wyl. ''mchog gi sprul sku''), such as [[Shakyamuni Buddha]] who displayed the [[twelve deeds]] here in [[Jambudvipa]].
#'''Diverse nirmanakaya''' (Skt. ''janmanirmāṇakāya''; Tib. སྐྱེ་བ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ, Wyl. ''skye ba sprul sku'') that manifest in order to tame various beings from [[Indra]] to a young girl.
#'''Craft nirmanakaya''' (Skt. ''śilpinnirmāṇakāya''; Tib. བཟོ་བོ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་, Wyl. ''bzo bo sprul sku'') such as the manifestation of the lute player in order to tame the [[gandharva]] Rabga, and as good food, bridges, pleasure gardens, and islands, as well as sculpted forms, paintings, woven images and cast metal statues.

Or, as [[Sogyal Rinpoche]] writes: 
:In [[Tibetan Buddhism]] the nirmanakaya is envisioned as the manifestation of [[enlightenment]], in an infinite variety of forms and ways, in the physical world. It is traditionally defined in three ways. 
:*One is the manifestation of a completely realized Buddha, such as Gautama Siddhartha, who is born into the world and teaches in it; 
:*another is a seemingly ordinary being who is blessed with a special capacity to benefit others: a [[tulku]]; and 
:*the third is actually a being through whom some degree of enlightenment works to benefit and inspire others through various arts, crafts, and sciences. In their case this enlightened impulse is, as [[Kalu Rinpoche]]<ref>Kalu Rinpoche, ''The Dharma'' (Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1986), page 59.</ref> says, "a spontaneous expression, just as light radiates spontaneously from the sun without the sun issuing directives or giving any conscious thought to the matter. The sun is, and it radiates."<ref>Sogyal Ripoche, ''The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying'', page 355.</ref>

==Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha==
*[[Garchen Rinpoche]], Rigpa Berlin centre, 4 October 2008, 10am

==Notes==
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==Further Reading==
*[[Khenpo Ngawang Palzang]], ''[[A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher]]'', Shambhala, 2004, pages 103-104.

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