A Sugata who has the dharmakāya starts by abandoning negative emotions, at which point he reaches the first of ten levels of the Bodhisattva path.11 He then proceeds along the path to Buddhahood until he reaches the level of no more learning. At that moment, he realizes the perfectly pure absolute space, the absolute nature, and the absolute body, or dharmakāya. As obscurations to ignorance fall away, all the qualities of primordial wisdom appear, in particular the twenty-one pure qualities of the dharmakāya. What is left after all the obscurations have been eliminated is called primordial
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