འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་རང་བཞན་མཉམ་པ་ཉད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲས་པ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་གྱ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7.6

7.6

“Young man, bodhisattva mahāsattvas whose wish is to aspire to the body of the tathāgata, who wish to know the body of the tathāgata, should obtain this samādhi, understand it, preserve it, recite it to others, promote it, proclaim it, chant it, meditate on it with dedication to the practice of meditation, and make it widely known to others.

“Young man, the body of the tathāgata⁷⁸¹ is taught to be one meaning,⁷⁸² with the understanding that it arises from a hundred merits. It arises from the Dharma.⁷⁸³ It is without attributes. It is devoid of all attributes. It is profound.⁷⁸⁴ It is immeasurable. It is an immeasurable phenomenon.⁷⁸⁵ It has the nature of the absence of attributes.⁷⁸⁶ It is free of all attributes.⁷⁸⁷ It is unwavering.⁷⁸⁸ It has no location. It completely has the nature of space. It is invisible. It transcends the scope of the eye’s vision. That should be known as the dharmakāya.⁷⁸⁹

“It is inconceivable. It is beyond the level of thought. It is unaffected by bliss or suffering. It transcends all conceptual elaboration.⁷⁹⁰ It has no location,⁷⁹¹ because it transcends the scope of the words of those who aspire to the wisdom of buddhahood. It is the quintessence⁷⁹² because it transcends desire. It is indivisible because it transcends anger.⁷⁹³ It is stable because it transcends the scope of ignorance. It is taught through the teaching of emptiness. It is unborn because it transcends birth.⁷⁹⁴ It is ‘permanent’ in terms of words, and terminology is empty.⁷⁹⁵ It is undifferentiated because it is nirvāṇa.⁷⁹⁶ It is ‘nirvāṇa’⁷⁹⁷ because of a word. It is ‘peace’ because of speaking.⁷⁹⁸ There is equality in terms of conventional appellations.⁷⁹⁹ There are appellations in terms of ultimate truth. There is ultimate truth through correct speech.⁸⁰⁰

“It is calmness, the absence of anguish.⁸⁰¹ It is groundless,⁸⁰² and cannot be comprehended.⁸⁰³ There is no end to its description.⁸⁰⁴

“Young man, it arises from training in the great, higher cognitions, and it is known as the tathāgatakāya.”

Thereupon, the Bhagavān spoke these verses: