84000 Glossary of Terms

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འཇིག་རྟེན་པའི་མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་ལྔ། | Glossary of Terms

  • འཇིག་རྟེན་པའི་མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་ལྔ།

  • ’jig rten pa’i mngon par shes pa lnga
  • pañca­lokābhijñā
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Publications: 1
  • five worldly clairvoyances
  • འཇིག་རྟེན་པའི་མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་ལྔ།
  • ’jig rten pa’i mngon par shes pa lnga
  • pañca­lokābhijñā
Definition in this text:

Five supernatural faculties resulting from meditative concentration that can be attained by both Buddhist and non-Buddhist practitioners: divine sight, divine hearing, knowing the minds of others, recollecting past lives, and the ability to perform miracles.

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མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་ལྔ།

  • pañca­lokābhijñā
  • pañcābhijña
  • pañcābhijñā
  • ṣaḍabhijñā
  • five clairvoyances
  • five extraordinary abilities
  • five extrasensory powers
  • five forms of superknowledge
  • five higher knowledges
  • five higher perceptions
  • five mundane superknowledges
  • five supercognitions
  • five superior abilities
  • five superknowledges
  • five supernatural abilities
  • five supernormal knowledges
  • five types of superknowledge
  • higher perceptions