Understanding having an exalted object (Buddhism)

This is understanding contingent on states of the fine-material (form-realm) or immaterial (formless realm) spheres. Together with understanding having a limited object it comprises mundane or worldly insight.

On the Path of Purification of Hinayana Buddhism, panna (understanding) is considered as of one kind (monad), of two kinds (dyads), of three kinds (triads) or of four kinds (tetrads). There are five dyads, four triads and two tetrads. All have the characteristic of penetrating the individual essences or true nature of states (monad). In the second triad, this is compared with understanding having a limited or measureless object.