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སྤྱན་ལྔ། | Glossary of Terms
སྤྱན་ལྔ།
spyan lnga
pañcacakṣus
- Term
- Five eyes
- མིག་ལྔ།
- mig lnga
- pañcacakṣu
The flesh eye, divine eye, wisdom eye, dharma eye, and buddha eye.
- Five eyes
- མིག་ལྔ།
- mig lnga
- pañcacakṣuḥ
These comprise (1) the eye of flesh, (2) the eye of divine clairvoyance, (3) the eye of wisdom, (4) the eye of the sacred doctrine, and (5) the eye of the buddhas. See also UT22084-031-002-268 and UT22084-031-002-1113.
- Five eyes
- སྤྱན་ལྔ།
- spyan lnga
- pañcacakṣus
The five kinds of eyes possessed by a tathāgata. Namely, the eye of flesh, the divine eye, the eye of Dharma, the eye of insight, and the eye of a buddha.
- Five eyes
- མིག་ལྔ།
- mig lnga
- pañcacakṣus
These comprise (1) the eye of flesh, (2) the eye of divine clairvoyance, (3) the eye of wisdom, (4) the eye of the sacred doctrine, and (5) the eye of the buddhas.
- Five eyes
- མིག་ལྔ།
- mig lnga
- pañcacakṣus
These comprise (1) the eye of flesh, (2) the eye of divine clairvoyance, (3) the eye of wisdom, (4) the eye of the sacred doctrine, and (5) the eye of the buddhas.
- Five eyes
- མིག་ལྔ།
- mig lnga
- pañcacakṣus
The flesh eye, divine eye, wisdom eye, dharma eye, and buddha eye.
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- Five types of vision
- སྤྱན་ལྔ།
- spyan lnga
- pañcacakṣus
The “five types of vision” are the physical, divine, prajñā, Dharma, and jñāna eyes.
- Fivefold vision
- སྤྱན་ལྔ།
- spyan lnga
- pañcacakṣuḥ
These comprise (1) the eye of flesh, (2) the eye of divine clairvoyance, (3) the eye of wisdom, (4) the eye of Dharma, and (5) the eye of the buddhas.