Dasa Tathagata Bala, Dasa Tathāgata Bala, Dasa-tathagata-bala: 1 definition

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In Buddhism

Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

[«previous next»] — Dasa Tathagata Bala in Theravada glossary
Source: Pali Kanon: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines

'the ten powers (of a Perfect One); or, he who Possesses the 10 P.', i.e. the Buddha.

About him it is said (e.g., M.12.; A.X.21):

There, o monks, the Perfect One understands according to reality the possible as possible, and the impossible as impossible ...

  • the result of past, present and future actions ...

  • the path leading to the welfare of all ...

  • the world with its many different elements ...

  • the different inclinations in beings ...

  • the lower and higher faculties in beings ...

  • the defilement, purity and rising with regard to the absorptions, deliverances, concentration and attainments ...

  • remembering many former rebirths ...

  • perceiving with the divine eye how beings vanish and reappear again according to their actions (karma) ...

  • gaining, through extinction of all taints, possession of 'deliverance of mind' and 'deliverance through wisdom' ...."

context information

Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

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