六祖大師法寶壇經 1.98

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The monk Zhitong was a man of Anfeng in Shouzhou. At first he read the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra about a thousand times without understanding the trikāya and four wisdoms. Paying homage to the Master, he sought an explanation of their meaning. The Master said, "As for the trikāya: the pure dharmakāya is your nature; the complete saṃbhogakāya is your wisdom; the hundreds of millions of nirmāṇakāyas are your actions. If one speaks of the trikāya apart from the fundamental nature, it is called having kāyas without wisdom. If one awakens to the fact that the trikāya has no svabhāva, one understands the bodhi of the four wisdoms. Listen to my gāthā: