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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.

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★ Trikaya

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★ Snellgrove, David (1987). ''Indo-Tibetan Buddhism'' (Vol.1). Boston, Massachusetts: Shambhala Publications, Inc. ISBN 0 87773 311 2

★ Snellgrove, David (1987). ''Indo-Tibetan Buddhism'' (Vol.2). Boston, Massachusetts: Shambhala Publications, Inc. ISBN 0 87773 379 1