ABSTRACT
The term dharmakAya is used in various places in the earliest strata of Buddhist literature, namely the Pali NikAyas and the Chinese Fgamas. The aim of this section is to collect and analyse some of the most significant passages of the NikAyas and their corresponding passages in the Chinese Fgamas.1 There are four relevant passages in which the idea of dharmakAya is cited as the teaching of the Buddha.
