dhamma

Updated: August 16, 2026

But in Buddhist writings, including the oldest Pali texts, Dharma or Dhamma has another important meaning. Now the Dharma-kâya is emphatically not a phenomenon but it may be regarded as the substratum or totality of phenomena or as that which gives phenomena whatever reality they possess and the double use of the word dharma rendered such divagations of meaning easier.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2