Mandate Of Trickery

Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare and the King James Bible could be correlated as the Trikaya (annotations in italics)

"The Trikaya doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism tells us that a Buddha manifests in three different ways. This allows a Buddha to simultaneously be one with the absolute while appearing in the relative world for the benefit of suffering beings. Understanding the Trikaya can clear up a lot of confusion about the nature of a Buddha...

Dharmakaya (King James Bible; faith reward)

Dharmakaya means "truth body." The dharmakaya is the absolute; the unity of all things and beings, all phenomena unmanifested. The dharmakaya is beyond existence or nonexistence, and beyond concepts. The late Chogyam Trungpa called the dharmakaya "the basis of the original unbornness....

Sambhogakaya (Geoffrey Chaucer; objects of reward)

Sambhogakaya means "bliss body" or "reward body." The "bliss body" is the body that feels the bliss of enlightenment. It is also a Buddha as an object of devotion. A sambhogakaya Buddha is enlightened and purified of defilements, yet he remains distinctive....

Nirmanakaya (William Shakespeare; plays are mortal)

Nirmanakaya means "emanation body." This is the physical body that is born, walks the earth, and dies. An example is the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, who was born and who died. However, this Buddha also has sambhogakaya and dharmakaya forms as well."

The Trikaya The Three Bodies of Buddha