On Feb 2, 2009, at 11:43 PM, yifuxero wrote:
--You call it epiphenomenon. I call it "Celestial".
A gyulus style realization, where the body simply vanishes, like Abhinavagupta and his 40 disciples, is the more "celestial" type of realization and has been believed to have happened in both Hindu and Buddhist inner tantra realizers. But the Jalus, the Body of Light and the Rainbow body, where non-DNA containing tissues are all that are left behind, this only is known to occur in Mahasandhi/Dzogchen, it would not be considered a celestial type of realization--but of course that depends of how you're defining "celestial".
