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teaching they receive at the temple. If we reach the truth and guide people in the right way, then in the end skill in meditation will triumph over slander. I am not upset by all this controversy because Dhammakāya is the truth of Buddhism. It is real. It will appear to all those who attain to that level of conciousness. My conviction in the veracity of Buddhism is unshakeable." He quoted the Buddha’s Teaching to his disciple Vakkali: "Yo kho Vakkali Dhammaṁ passati so maṁ passati" [Vakkali, whoever sees Dhamma, sees mel. He went on to give another of the Buddha’s dis- courses to the novice Vāsetṭha: "Tathāgatassa h’etam Vāsetṭhādi-vacanam Dhammakāyo iti pi ..." [O Vāsetṭhas! The Word of Dhammakāya is indeed the name of the Tathāgata]. The story of Vakkali concerns the novice’s attach- ment to the beauty of the physical body of the Buddha. The meaning of the quotation from the Aggañña Sutta relates to the Nature of that which people experience in meditation and gives the real meaning of the word ‘Tathāgata’. ‘Dhamma’ the absolute truth, is seen to mean ‘the Dhamma inside’, the Dhammakāya or the ‘Body of Dhamma’: "The one who sees Dhamma sees the Tathāgata. This means that the Dhammakāya or the Body of Dhamma is the real Tathāgata. The one who sees the Dhamma, the Dhammakāya, in fact sees the Buddha. The Real Buddha is the Dhammakāya, not the physical body of the historical Buddha. Why should Lord Buddha speak thus to Vakkali? Even if a person looks upon the physical body of