Third and most abstract of the Buddha’s forms is the dharmakaya, the “body of dharma.” This is the cosmic aspect of the Buddha-principle, one with the Absolute, the unconditioned ground of every living creature. The Buddha may have shed his physical body, but the dharmakaya, the force he drew upon to set the wheel of dharma in motion, continues to operate. Never born, it can never die. Mahatma Gandhi said once that we can talk about a supreme reality either as the Lawgiver (dharmakarta) or as the Law (dharma). Similarly, the Buddha can be looked upon as embodied in the dharma that he taught:
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