A blissful form of Buddha activity pertaining to the bodhisattvas, which inspires ordinary people to strive for Buddhahood.

Tib. longchoe dzoku. Enjoyment Body, dimension of the full richness of being.

body of shared enjoyment” – the second of the Buddha's three bodies, in which he preaches to the assembled bodhisattvas.

(Sanskrit) The "enjoyment body"; the form in which the enlightened mind appears in order to benefit highly realized bodhisattvas. One of the three bodies of a Buddha.

The 'body of perfect enjoyment.' Of the five kayas of fruition, this is the semi-manifest form of the buddhas endowed with the 'five perfections' of the perfect teacher, retinue, place, teaching, and time which is perceptable only to bodhisattvas on the ten bhumis.

(Skt.): Enjoyment/bliss Body of a BUDDHA. The physical (psychic) form of BUDDHA's WISDOM. The transformation result of speech, communication and LUNG. In TANTRA known as the VAJRA of speech or the Buddha's voice.

The "buddha-body of perfect resource"; the form in which the enlightened mind appears in order to benefit highly realized bodhisattvas. See also dharmakaya and nirmanakaya.

( Skt.): "body of perfect enjoyment." One of the trikaya, the three bodies of a buddha perceptible only to highly realized bodhisattvas that manifests in order to benefit sentient beings. The visionary and communicative aspect of buddha-nature.

The Body of Bliss, assumed by Buddhas when teaching Mahayana sutras to particular Bodhisattvas. The celestial aspect of the Buddhas.

(Skt) longs sku (Tib). See Kaya.

The Sambhogakāya (Sanskrit: "body of enjoyment", Tib: longs.sku) is the supramundane form that a fully enlightened Buddha appears in following the completion of his career as a Bodhisattva. This body is an ideal form, similar to that seen in Buddhist iconography and in meditational visualizations, of a human figure manifesting all of the thirty-two marks of a Buddha. The place where the Sambhogakāya body appears is an extra-cosmic realm called , similar to but perhaps distinct from the that is the highest realm of the Śuddhāvāsa devas.