Knowledge of the divine ear element (Buddhism)

The meditator, having completed the practices for higher knowledge, adverts to sounds evident to normal consciousness, starting with gross and progressing to more subtle. Giving attention to the sound sign, he goes through the process for absorption with reference to sound. Knowledge arises with absorption consciousness. He then hears, with the divine ear, divine and human sounds in an area he delimits, which can then be progressively extended. There are four kinds of object - limited and present (since sounds are, by their nature limited and in the present), internal and external.

One of the five kinds of direct or higher knowledge developed in Hinayana Buddhism.