Interpretations of Dhammakāya in Pali Commentaries : หน้า 82/141

In addition to the above two commentators, Upasena and Buddhadatta141 are also Pali commentators who lived around the same times.142 Upasena agrees with Buddhagōsha in regard to his interpretations of dhammakāya as related to the Buddha’s qualities or spiritual attainment.143 None of his writings interprets the term dhammakāya in the sense of ‘teaching.’ Likewise, Buddhadatta differentiates dhammakāya or dhamma-body from the Buddha’s physical body (rūpakāya).144 He expresses the beauty of the Buddha by means of the properties (guṇa) of both his physical body and his dhamma-body.145 Later in the eleventh to twelfth centuries CE, two commentators of the Pali Vinaya differ slightly in their interpretations of dhammakāya. Vajirabuddhi usually interprets the term dhammakāya in the sense of Buddha’s teaching or dhamma-vinaya that takes the role of the teacher after the Buddha’s passing,146 while Sāriputta prefers to relate the term dhammakāya with the Buddha’s enlightenment147 or to identify it with the Buddha’s qualities (buddhaguṇa)148 and as that which can be seen through the disciples’ spiritual attainment.149