མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་ལྔ། | Glossary of Terms

Five supernatural faculties result from meditative concentration: divine sight, divine hearing, knowing others’ minds, recollecting past lives, and the ability to perform miracles.

See the six superknowledges. The five superknowledges follow the same set excluding the knowledge of how to extinguish the defilements (discussed fourth in Siṃha’s Questions).

The five supernatural abilities attained through realization and yogic accomplishment: divine sight, divine hearing, knowing how to manifest miracles, remembering previous lives, and knowing the minds of others.

Divine sight, knowledge of the minds of others, remembrance of past lives, the ability to perform miracles, and the ability to destroy all mental defilements.

Five extraordinary abilities that result from meditative concentration: divine sight, divine hearing, knowing others’ minds, recollecting past lives, and the ability to perform miracles. See also “six superknowledges.”

Five extrasensory powers that come at higher levels of meditative cultivation: divine sight, divine hearing, knowing how to manifest miracles, remembering previous lives, and knowing the minds of others.

These are (1) knowledge of miracles (riddividhijñānam, rdzu ’phrul gyi mngon par shes pa), (2) knowledge of the divine eye (divyaṃcakṣuḥ, lha’i mig gi mngon par shes pa), (3) knowledge of the minds of others (paracittābhijñānam, lha’i rna ba’i mngon par shes pa), (4) knowledge of the divine ear (divyamśrotam, lha’i rna ba’i mngon par shes pa), and (5) knowledge recollecting past lives (pūrvanirvāsānusmṛitijñānam, sngon gnas rjes dran gyi mngon par shes pa). These five can be attained by non-Buddhist and Buddhist practitioners alike. A sixth can be attained only by Buddhist practitioners: (6) knowledge of the extinction of the contaminations (āsravakṣayābhijñā, zag pa zad pa’i mngon par shes pa) (Rigzin 95–6, except #6, Skt. via Negi).

The five are: divine eye, divine ear, knowing the thoughts of others, memory of former lifetimes, and magical powers.

These are the five types of clairvoyance and magical power‍—“divine eye,” divine ear,” reading other beings’ thoughts, recollecting previous births, and magical powers (ṛddhi).

See “clairvoyances.”

See “five worldly clairvoyances.”

See “clairvoyances.”

Divine sight, divine hearing, the ability to know past and future lives, the ability to know the minds of others, and the ability to produce miracles.

Five extraordinary abilities that result from meditative concentration: divine sight, divine hearing, knowing others’ minds, recollecting past lives, and the ability to perform miracles.

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, and (5) the extrasensory power realizing knowledge of recollection of past lives.

(See also notes UT22084-031-002-127 and UT22084-031-002-267).

(1) The divine eye, (2) the divine ear, (3) knowledge of others’ minds, (4) recollection of past lives, and (5) miracles.

Divine sight, divine hearing, knowledge of the minds of others, remembrance of past lives, and ability to perform miracles. See “six higher perceptions,” the same list with the addition of “ability to destroy mental defilements,” which can only be attained by Buddhist practitioners.

Divine sight, divine hearing, the ability to know past and future lives, the ability to know the minds of others, and the ability to produce miracles.

Presumably this list consists of the six forms of superknowledge without knowledge of the destruction of the defiled.

Five supernatural faculties that result from meditative concentration: divine sight, divine hearing, knowing the minds of others, recollecting past lives, and the ability to perform miracles.

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

These are (1) clairvoyance (divya­cakṣurabhijñā, lha’i mig gi mngon par shes pa), (2) clairaudience (divya­śrotrābhijñā, lha’i rna ba’i mngon par shes pa), (3) knowledge of others’ minds (paracittajñāna, pha rol gyi sems shes pa’i mngon par shes pa), (4) retrocognition (pūrvanivāsānu­smṛtijñāna, sngon gyi gnas rjes su dran pa’i mngon par shes pa), and (5) knowledge of magical feats (ṛddhividhi­jñāna, rdzu ’phrul gyi bya ba shes pa’i mngon par shes pa).

Divine sight, divine hearing, the ability to know past and future lives, the ability to know the minds of others, and the ability to produce miracles.

Divine sight, divine hearing, knowledge of the minds of others, remembrance of past lives, and ability to perform miracles. See “six supernormal knowledges,” the same list with the addition of “ability to destroy all mental defilements,” which can only be attained by Buddhist practitioners.

The five types of superknowledge are psychic powers, clairvoyance, clairaudience, knowledge of others’ minds, and knowledge of past lives.