Emanation-body awareness (Buddhism)

This state of awareness is characterized by the simultaneous presence of mind in various stations and is represented as the Buddha's distribution of emanation-bodies in all the world systems to teach the dharma. It is this body which appears on earth as a guide towards liberation for all beings and results from the compassion of buddhas in the sambhogakaya paradise, their meditation embodying dharmakaya as a human being. Thus the world's saviours have a docetic or illusory bodily existence. One attaining this state enacts the role of such an incarnation in the nirmanakaya, appearing to be born, experiencing a miraculous infancy and so on. Sakyamuni Buddha was such an emanated form or tulku, and his life is a paradigm of buddhic development. As a phase in the bardo state, nirmanakaya is manifest as light less brilliant than the previous phases and in forms related to the bhavacakra (six modes of existence).

In Mahayana Buddhism, one of the trikaya (three bodies) of a buddha. In Tibetan Buddhism it is related to the last of three phases experienced in the "in-between" or bardo consciousness between death and rebirth, each being connected with one of the trikaya of Buddha and in any of which a being may attain liberation. In Tibetan Sakya Buddhism this is one of the states in the "Ascension Stages Game". In some sets it is numbered 97 on the board.