Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon c23.s2.8

c23.s2.8

Ontologically the Vijñānavāda has a simple place for the conception of body of bliss. In accord with the Tāntrika conception of the body of bliss as an emanation from the body of the law,³ it holds that from intelligence (*vijñāna*), pure, immaculate, and quiescent or void, that is, the body of the law, springs mind, which, when infected or defiled (*kliṣṭa*), originates the whole complex of thought which constitutes the world. The body of bliss is parallel with the undefiled mind, or from another point of view the intellect, in so far as it is individualized as Buddha or Bodhisattva.