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¹ On the Mahāyāna doctrine of the three bodies (trikāya) of the Buddha, *viz.*, dharmakāya (the absolute), sambhogakāya (the superhuman body with which the Buddhas enjoy their glory, virtue and wisdom) and nirmāṇakāya (the assumed body, which the Buddhas assume, in order to carry out their work of releasing the beings, on earth), see *La Vallée Poussin* in ERE I, 97 f.; M. Anesaki in ERE IV, 839 f.; P. Masson-Oursel in JA 1918, sér. 11, t. 1, p. 581 ff.; *Rosenberg*, Die Probleme der buddhistischen Philosophie, p. 286 ff.; W. Montgomery McGovern, An Introduction to Mahāyāna Buddhism, London 1922, p. 75 ff. I-tsing's Chinese translation of the Suvarṇa-Prabhāsa has a chapter on the doctrine of Trikāya, which does not appear in the Sanskrit text, and which, in the opinion of *Anesaki* (l.c.) was probably interpolated by an adherent of Vasubandhu. On Dharmadhātu see Th. *Stcherbatsky*, Central Conception of Buddhism, pp. 59, 97.