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རྫུ་འཕྲུལ། | Glossary of Terms
རྫུ་འཕྲུལ།
rdzu ’phrul
ṛddhi
- Term
The supernatural powers of a śrāvaka correspond to the first abhijñā: “Being one he becomes many, being many he becomes one; he becomes visible, invisible; goes through walls, ramparts and mountains without being impeded, just as through air; he immerses himself in the earth and emerges from it as if in water; he goes on water without breaking through it, as if on [solid] earth; he travels through the air crosslegged like a winged bird; he takes in his hands and touches the moon and the sun, those two wonderful, mighty beings, and with his body he extends his power as far as the Brahma world” (Śūraṃgamasamādhisūtra, trans. Lamotte 2003).
The great supernatural powers (mahāṛddhi) of bodhisattvas are “causing trembling, blazing, illuminating, rendering invisible, transforming, coming and going across obstacles, reducing or enlarging worlds, inserting any matter into one’s own body, assuming the aspects of those one frequents, appearing and disappearing, submitting everyone to one’s will, dominating the supernormal power of others, giving intellectual clarity to those who lack it, giving mindfulness, bestowing happiness, and finally, emitting beneficial rays” (Śūraṃgamasamādhisūtra, trans. Lamotte 2003).
- Miraculous power
- རྫུ་འཕྲུལ།
- rdzu ’phrul
- ṛddhi
- Miraculous power
- རྫུ་འཕྲུལ།
- rdzu ’phrul
- ṛddhi
See “bases of miraculous power.”
- Miraculous power
- རྫུ་འཕྲུལ།
- rdzu ’phrul
- ṛddhi
The ability to make manifest miraculous displays evident to ordinary beings.
- Miraculous power
- རྫུ་འཕྲུལ།
- rdzu ’phrul
- ṛddhi
- Miraculous powers
- རྫུ་འཕྲུལ།
- rdzu ’phrul
- ṛddhi
The ability to make manifest miraculous displays evident to ordinary beings.
- Miraculous powers
- རྫུ་འཕྲུལ།
- rdzu ’phrul
- ṛddhi
The ability to make manifest miraculous displays evident to ordinary beings.
- Supernatural power
- རྫུ་འཕྲུལ།
- rdzu ’phrul
- ṛddhi
The ability to make manifest miraculous displays evident to ordinary beings.
- Supernatural power
- རྫུ་འཕྲུལ།
- rdzu ’phrul
- ṛddhi
The supernatural powers of a śrāvaka correspond to the first abhijnā: “Being one he becomes many, being many he becomes one; he becomes visible, invisible; goes through walls, ramparts and mountains without being impeded, just as through air; he immerses himself in the earth and emerges from it as if in water; he goes on water without breaking through it, as if on [solid] earth; he travels through the air crosslegged like a winged bird; he takes in his hands and touches the moon and the sun, those two wonderful, mighty beings, and with his body he extends his power as far as the Brahma world” (Lamotte 2003: 20). The great supernatural powers (mahāṛddhi) of bodhisattvas are: “causing trembling, blazing, illuminating, rendering invisible, transforming, coming and going across obstacles, reducing or enlarging worlds, inserting any matter into one’s own body, assuming the aspects of those one frequents, appearing and disappearing, submitting everyone to one’s will, dominating the supernormal power of others, giving intellectual clarity to those who lack it, giving mindfulness, bestowing happiness, and finally, emitting beneficial rays.” (Lamotte 2003: 30).
- Magical power
- རྫུ་འཕྲུལ།
- rdzu ’phrul
- ṛddhi
One of the five supernormal knowledges.