Untying the Knots in Buddhism
author: Alex Wayman
edition: 1997, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
pages: 631
ISBN-10: 8120813219
ISBN-13: 9788120813212
Topic: Buddhism
Nescience and Omniscience
This chapter describes Nescience and Omniscience located on page 551 in the book Untying the Knots in Buddhism. These essays deal with Buddhist Heroes such as Sakyamuni, Nagarjuna; Doctrine such as topics on suffering, karma, and voidness; Practice such as diet, purification and visualisations; and further theories of no-self, nescience and omniscience, etc. This chapter is part "Section V, Hindu Buddhist Studies"
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Nescience and Omniscience” according to 72 books dealing with Buddhism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
The Tattvasangraha [with commentary] [by Ganganatha Jha]
—If you deduce the fact of all persons being not-omniscient from seeing that you yourself are not so,—then, there would be this incongruity that (your) Brahma and other deities would deduce the omniscience of all persons from their own omniscience....
Read full contents: Verse 3562-3564
Reverberations of Dharmakirti’s Philosophy [by Birgit Kellner]
In v. 137 of the codana-section of the ShlV, Kumarila famously points to a contradiction in the assumption of the Buddha s omniscience: had the Buddha really been omniscient, he would have been unable to teach; teaching is a form of operation (vyapara) that naturally implies some kind of intention to speak, thus a form of desire/passion (raga), incompatible with the supposedly dispassion-ate (ragarahita) state characterizing the Omniscient....
Read full contents: Mandana Mishra’s Excursus on the Buddha’s Omniscience
Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra [by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön]
The Mahaniddesa, p. 178–178, says that the Buddha is omniscient, not by virtue of his knowing everything but by virtue of the fact that he is able to know whatever he wishes....
Read full contents: Appendix 2 - Notes on the Buddha’s omniscience (sarvajnata)
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[Untying the Knots in Buddhism: index]
[About the Author (Alex Wayman)]
[Foreword]
[Preface]
[Introduction]