Embodied Transcendence: The Buddha’s Body in the Pāli Nikāyas

This article reassesses the role of body in advanced meditation as it is presented early Buddhist Pāli discourses, showing that certain theorizations liberation held contained a marked corporeal element. The also reflects upon understanding Buddha’s this textual corpus, and demonstrates for important strands tradition, was thought to manifest his body, so impacted physical presence quality movement. There are metaphysical dimensions its nature transcends material. Common approaches take be purely psychological transformation thus ignore aspects traditional understanding, which directs us think plurality liberation.