Tibetan Rainbow Body

[Ya Sam]

"Jalus or jalu or ja-lus-pa- Tibetan - Rainbow Body of Light. The process 
that enables the body to be reabsorbed back into the light essence of the 
elements that created it."

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"Ancient wisdom texts of Tibet, China, and India describe a unique 
phenomenon appearing at the time immediately following bodily death in some 
spiritual adepts. The "rainbow body" (’ja’lus in Tibetan) is the literal 
transformation of the whole person into light, into transcendence. Its 
manifestation is considered one of the key signs of spiritual realization 
within these traditions. Those rare individuals who manifest the rainbow 
body do not leave their bodies behind to rot; rather, the body is 
transformed into light.

Despite the awe-inspiring image this engenders, the true significance of the 
rainbow body is viewed as spiritual rather than material: It manifests a 
life that was deeply and thoroughly authentic, and is the supreme statement 
of "spirituality" in the fullest sense of the word. Within Buddhism, reports 
of this transformation are rare, but have been chronicled as far back as the 
seventh or eighth centuries. The rainbow body is not a uniquely Tibetan 
discovery. It was a central aim of Indian Buddhist tantricism (Vajrayana), 
and there is an extensive literature: The phenomenon is frequently mentioned 
in the hagiographical literature. "

http://www.noetic.org/publications/research/main.cfm?page=frontiers_53.htm

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