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Knowledge of supernormal powers (Buddhism)

  • One becoming many
  • Direct knowledge
  • Higher knowledge

Description

Knowledge may be severally: multiplying one's self to be many and then reverting to one; appearing and vanishing; causing to appear and vanish, and so on. There are seven kinds of object: limited when the object is material, exalted when the object is exalted consciousness; past, future or present; internal when one's own body or mind are object, external when the object is some other form.

Context

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

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Human development
Type
(M) Modes of awareness
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Last update
Dec 3, 2024