本  (1) Root, source, origin, essence, basis. (2) Rooted in, to find the origin in. (3) Book, document. (4) In Buddhist texts, often found in such compound words as "original nature" 本性, "original enlightenment" 本覺, or "original Buddhahood" 本佛, indicating the human mind which is in essence, undefiled and enlightened.

Radical, fundamental, original, principal, one's own; the Buddha himself, contrasted with 蹟 chi, traces left by him among men to educate them; also a volume of a book.

A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous

本 (běn) 　( “source, origin” )

{《漢語大詞典》4.703} ; {《大漢和辞典》6.26} ;

Dharmarakṣa: {86b15} 三界無所有…… 悉等如虛空 無見無不見 乃覩一切本(v)

{K.143.3} dharmakāya~

Kumārajīva: {not found at L.20b24}

《添品妙華蓮華經》Taishō, Vol. 9, No. 264, {Ten.155a23} 法身

A Digital Edition of A Glossary of Dharmarakṣa translation of the Lotus Sutra by Seishi Karashima, 1998