Dibbasota, Dibba-sota: 5 definitions

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Dibbasota 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)

M (Ear of deva). Knowledge enabling to hear everything from all sides and distances.

Source: Dhamma Dana: Pali English Glossary

the 'divine ear', is one of the 6 higher powers (abhiññā).

Source: Pali Kanon: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines
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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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Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

[«previous next»] — Dibbasota in Pali glossary

dibbasota (ဒိဗ္ဗသောတ) [(na) (န)]—
[dibba+sota.]
[ဒိဗ္ဗ+သောတ။]

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

[Pali to Burmese]

dibbasota—

(Burmese text): (၁) နတ်၌ဖြစ်သော ပသာဒသောတ (မံသသောတ)။ (၂) နတ်၌ဖြစ်သော ပသာဒသောတနှင့် တူသော အဘိညာဉ်ဉာဏ်။ (၃) နတ်တို့၏ ဥစ္စာဖြစ်သော မံသသောတနှင့် တူသော အဘိညာဉ်ဉာဏ်။ (၄) ဒိဗ္ဗဝိဟာရ (ပါဒကဈာန်=ရူပါဝစရစတုတ္ထဈာန်) ကို မှီသော ပသာဒသောတနှင့် တူသော အဘိညာဉ်ဉာဏ်။ (၅) ဒိဗ္ဗဝိဟာရ (ရူပါဝစရဈာန် ၄-ပါး) တွင်-အကျုံးဝင်- ပါဝင်-သော စတုတ္ထဈာန်ကို မှီသော ပသာဒသောတနှင့် တူသော အဘိညာဉ်ဉာဏ်၊ ဒိဗ္ဗသောတအဘိညာဉ်ဉာဏ် (ဉာဏသောတ)။ ဒိဗ္ဗ,ဒိဗ္ဗဝိဟာရသန္နိဿိတ-တို့ကြည့်။

(Auto-Translation): (1) The type of existence as a deity known as "Mansathota." (2) The mental state equivalent to the "Mansathota" that exists among deities. (3) The mental state similar to the "Mansathota," which is the substance of deities. (4) The mental state equivalent to the "Mansathota" that relies on "Dibbavihara" (Padakajana = Rupawassarattha jhana). (5) The mental state equivalent to the "Mansathota" that relies on the fourth jhana included in "Dibbavihara" (four Rupawassara jhanas), along with the Dibbathota mental state (Jhanathota). Refer to Dibba and Dibbavihara in detail.

Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)

Dibbasota (in Pali) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:

1) 天耳通 [tiān ěr tōng]: “supernatural power of divine hearing”.

Note: dibbasota can be alternatively written as: dibba-sota.

Source: DILA Glossaries: Pali-Chinese-English (dictionary of Buddhism)
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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.

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