The History of Buddhist Thought c26.56

c26.56

² Ibid., ix, 59 ff.; cf. Bu-ston, p. 127. Asanga expressly speaks of three bodies, the dharma-body being the essential body and the true form of all. But a fourth was made by treating the essential body separately. La Vallée Poussin, “The three bodies of a Buddha,” JRAS., 1906, 943; Masson-Oursel, J.A., 1913, 581.