Dibbacakkhu, Dibba-cakkhu: 7 definitions
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Dibbacakkhu means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
A false ascetic, a previous birth of Devadatta. For his story see the Somanassa Jataka.
N (Eye of deva). Knowledge enabling to see everything from all sides and distances.
the 'divine eye',
- is one of the 6 higher powers (abhiññā),
- and one of the three kinds of knowledge (tevijjā).
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).
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
dibbacakkhu : (nt.) the divine eye.
dibbacakkhu (ဒိဗ္ဗစက္ခု) [(na) (န)]—
[dibba+cakkhu．dibbañja taṃ cakkhu cātidibbacakkhu．iti,ṭṭha.197．(-paṭisaṃ,ṭṭha,1.49.5va)]
[ဒိဗ္ဗ+စက္ခု။ ဒိဗ္ဗဉ္ဇ တံ စက္ခု စာတိဒိဗ္ဗစက္ခု။ ဣတိဝုတ်၊ဋ္ဌ။၁၉၇။ (-ပဋိသံ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၁။၄၉။၅ဝ)]
[Pali to Burmese]
dibbacakkhu—
(Burmese text): (၁) နတ်၌ဖြစ်သော မျက်စိ၊ နတ်တို့၏ မျက်စိ၊ နတ်မျက်စိ။ (၂) (က) နတ်မျက်စိနှင့်တူသော ပကတိမျက်စိ (မံသစက္ခု)။ (ခ) နတ်မျက်စိနှင့်တူသော-ဉာဏ်မျက်စိ-အဘိညာဉ်မျက်စိ။ (ဂ) ဒိဗ္ဗဝိဟာရ (ရူပါဝစရစတုတ္ထဈာန်)၌ မှီသော- ဉာဏ်မျက်စိ-အဘိညာဉ်မျက်စိ (ဉာဏစက္ခု)။ (တိ) (၃) ဒိဗ္ဗစက္ခုအဘိညာဉ်-ရှိ-ရ-သော၊သူ။ မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Eyes of the deities, divine eyes, godly eyes. (2) (a) Natural eyes that are similar to the divine eyes (manta eye). (b) Eyes of wisdom similar to the divine eyes - eyes of knowledge. (c) Eyes of wisdom - knowledge eyes that rely upon the divine realm (knowledge seekers). (d) (3) The one who possesses the divine eye as per divine attributes. Please refer to the original.
Dibbacakkhu (in Pali) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 天眼通 [tiān yǎn tōng]: “divine vision”.
Note: dibbacakkhu can be alternatively written as: dibba-cakkhu.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Cakkhu, Dibba.
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