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མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་དྲུག | Glossary of Terms
མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་དྲུག
mngon par shes pa drug
ṣaḍabhijñā
- Term
- Six superknowledges
- མངོན་ཤེས་དྲུག
- mngon shes drug
- ṣaḍabhijñā
The six superknowledges in Siṃha’s Question are discussed in verses 27–30 in the following order: (1) divine sight, a form of clairvoyance; (2) divine hearing, a form of clairaudience; (3) knowing the dying, transmigration, and rebirth of sentient beings; (4) knowing how to extinguish the defilements; (5) the recollection of former lives; and (6) knowing how to perform miraculous transformations. In Buddhist literature, the six are not always given in this order, and sometimes the superknowledges are listed as five, excluding knowing how to extinguish the defilements.
- Six superknowledges
- མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་དྲུག
- mngon par shes pa drug
- ṣaḍabhijñā
These comprise divine sight, divine hearing, knowledge of the minds of others, remembrance of past lives, the ability to perform miracles, and the ability to destroy all mental defilements.
- Six superknowledges
- མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་དྲུག
- mngon par shes pa drug
- ṣaḍabhijñā
Divine sight, divine hearing, knowledge of the minds of others, remembrance of past lives, ability to perform miracles, and ability to destroy all mental defilements.
- Six superknowledges
- མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་དྲུག
- mngon par shes pa drug
- ṣaḍabhijñā
Divine sight, divine hearing, knowledge of the minds of others, remembrance of past lives, the ability to perform miracles, and the ability to destroy all mental defilements.
- Six superknowledges
- མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་དྲུག
- mngon par shes pa drug
- ṣaḍabhijñā
The same as the five superknowledges—divine sight, divine hearing, knowledge of the minds of others, remembrance of past lives, ability to perform miracles—plus the ability to destroy all mental defilements.
- Six superknowledges
- མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་དྲུག
- mngon par shes pa drug
- ṣaḍabhijñā
- 六通
Divine sight, divine hearing, knowledge of the minds of others, remembrance of past lives, the ability to perform miracles, and the knowledge of the destruction of all mental defilements.
- Six superknowledges
- མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་དྲུག
- mngon par shes pa drug
- ṣaḍabhijñā
The six modes of supernormal cognition or ability, namely, clairvoyance, clairaudience, knowledge of the minds of others, remembrance of past lives, the ability to perform miracles, and the knowledge of the destruction of all mental defilements. The first five are considered mundane or worldly and can be attained to some extent by non-Buddhist yogis as well as Buddhist arhats and bodhisattvas. The sixth is considered to be supramundane and can be attained only by Buddhist yogis.
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- Six superknowledges
- མངོན་ཤེས་དྲུག
- mngon shes drug
- ṣaḍabhijñā
- Six higher perceptions
- མངོན་ཤེས་དྲུག
- mngon shes drug
- ṣaḍabhijñā
The six modes of supernormal cognition or ability, namely, clairvoyance, clairaudience, knowledge of the minds of others, remembrance of past lives, the ability to perform miracles, and the knowledge of the destruction of all mental defilements. The first five are considered mundane or worldly and can be attained to some extent by non-Buddhist yogis as well as Buddhist arhats and bodhisattvas. The sixth is considered to be supramundane and can be attained only by Buddhist yogis.
- Six higher perceptions
- མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་དྲུག
- mngon par shes pa drug
- ṣaḍabhijñā
- 六神通, 六通
Divine sight, divine hearing, knowledge of the minds of others, remembrance of past lives, ability to perform miracles, and ability to destroy all mental defilements.
- Six higher perceptions
- མངོན་ཤེས་དྲུག
- mngon shes drug
- ṣaḍabhijñā
Divine sight, divine hearing, knowledge of the minds of others, remembrance of past lives, ability to perform miracles, and the knowledge that all mental defilements have been destroyed.
- Six clairvoyances
- མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་དྲུག
- mngon par shes pa drug
- ṣaḍābhijña
See “clairvoyances.”
- Six extrasensory powers
- མངོན་ཤེས་དྲུག
- mngon shes drug
- ṣaḍabhijñā
As mentioned in UT22084-031-002-266, they comprise (1) the extrasensory power realizing knowledge of [miraculous] activities, (2) the extrasensory power realizing knowledge of divine clairvoyance, (3) the extrasensory power realizing knowledge of divine clairaudience, (4) the extrasensory power realizing knowledge of other minds, (5) the extrasensory power realizing knowledge of recollection of past lives, and (6) the extrasensory power realizing knowledge of the cessation of contaminants.
(See also UT22084-031-002-267).
- Six forms of superknowledge
- མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་དྲུག
- mngon par shes pa drug
- ṣaḍabhijñā
The divine eye (Skt. divyacakṣus), divine ear (Skt. divyaśrotra), recollection of previous births (Skt. pūrvanivāsānusmṛti), knowledge of other minds (Skt. paracittajñāna), knowledge of the destruction of the defiled (Skt. āsravakṣayajñāna), and [knowledge of] superpowers (Skt. ṛddhi).
- Six super-knowledges
- མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་དྲུག
- mngon par shes pa drug
- ṣaḍabhijñā
Six modes of clairvoyant cognition.
- Six supernormal knowledges
- མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་དྲུག
- mngon par shes pa drug
- —
Divine sight, divine hearing, knowledge of the minds of others, remembrance of past lives, ability to perform miracles, and ability to destroy all mental defilements. The first five supernormal knowledges are considered mundane or worldly and can be attained to some extent by non-Buddhist yogis as well as Buddhist arhats and bodhisattvas. The sixth is considered to be supramundane and can be attained only by Buddhist yogis.