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Chapter Eight — The Rainbow Body: Light, Symbol, and the Dissolution of Fixation Among the teachings associated with Bön and Dzogchen, none has been more misunderstood, literalized, or sensationalized than the doctrine of the Rainbow Body. It is frequently presented as a miraculous culmination in which the physical body dissolves into light, leaving behind only hair and nails, or vanishing entirely. While such accounts exist within the tradition, to approach the Rainbow Body as a supernatural feat or an esoteric prize is to miss its deeper meaning entirely. In Bön, the Rainbow Body is not primarily a claim about physics; it is a teaching about recognition, articulated through the language of light. read more