transformed body　応化身 Skt. nirmāṇakāya, one of three forms (Skt. trikāya) a Buddha can manifest along with dharmakāya and sambhogakāya. It is a transformed Buddha-body accommodated to the needs of sentient beings. Dharmakāya, or dharma-body, represents the body of suchness or dharma-nature itself, which is the wisdom and compassion of a Buddha. Sambhogakāya, or fulfilled body, is the form the Buddha takes upon fulfilling the vows to save all sentient beings. The concept of the three forms of a Buddha appears significantly in Vasubandhu’s Discourse on the Sutra of the Ten Stages (^○Daśabhūmika-sūtra-śāstra, T. 26, No, 1522). In the Treatise on the Pure Land, this notion of transformed body is applied to the work of a bodhisattva who has attained birth in Amida’s Land and intends to benefit all other beings in the ten quarters. Shinran mentions this notion below as “various forms” in Shōshinge.