page_title: Miracles of Gautama Buddha
section_title: Ascending to Heaven and Creating a Duplicate
hierarchical_section_title: Miracles of Gautama Buddha / Miracles in the Tripitaka / Ascending to Heaven and Creating a Duplicate
caption_attribution_description: English: The Buddha preaching the Abhidhamma to his former mother, now a Deva and others in Tavatimsa Heaven.မြန်မာဘာသာ: မြတ်စွာဘုရားသည် ဘုရားအဖြစ်သို့ ရောက်တော်မူပြီး နောက်ခုနစ်နှစ် မြောက်သော အခါ၌ သန္တုိုတ အမည်ရှိသော မယ်တော်မိနတ်သားအား ကျေးဇူးဆပ်သည့် အနေဖြင့် အဘိဓမ္မာတရားတော်ကို တာဝတိံသာနတ်ပြည်၌ ဟောကြားတော်မူ၏။ အဆိုပါ အဘိဓမ္မာတရားတော်ကို ဝါတွင်းသုံးလပတ်လုံး ကြားနာရသောအခါ မယ်တော်နတ်သားနှင့် တကွ နတ်ဗြဟ္မာအပေါင်းတို့သည် သောတပန်၊ သကဒါဂါမ်၊ အနာဂါမ်၊ ရဟန္တာ တည်းဟူသော အရိယာပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များအဖြစ်သို့ အသီးသီး ရောက်ရှိကြလေသည်။
context_page_description: The miracles of Gautama Buddha refers to supernatural feats and abilities attributed to Gautama Buddha by the Buddhist scriptures. The feats are mostly attributed to supranormal powers gained through meditation, rather than divine miracles. Supranormal powers the historic Buddha was said to have possessed and exercised include the six higher knowledges: psychic abilities, clairaudience, telepathy, recollection of one's own past lives, seeing the past lives and rebirths of others, and the extinction of mental intoxicants. Miracles found in Mahayana sutras generally play a more direct role in illustrating certain doctrines than miracles found in non-Mahayana Buddhist texts.
  Stories of Gautama Buddha's miracles include miraculous healings, teleportation, creating duplicates of himself, manipulation of the elements, and various other supernatural phenomena. Many of the Buddha's disciples, as well as some non-Buddhist hermits and yogis who attained high states of meditative absorption, were also said to have had some of these same abilities. According to Buddhist texts the Buddha frequently utilized or discussed these abilities but talked about them unfavorably as a conversion method.
context_section_description: The Buddha ascends to Tavatimsa Heaven to preach the Abhidhamma to his deceased mother. He recites the Abhidhamma to the devas for the full rains-retreat without stopping, taking a break everyday to go on alms-round and eat. During the daily lunch hour, the Buddha creates a duplicate of himself and orders it to preach in his place while he is away.
caption: Burmese painting depicting the Buddha preaching to devas in Tavatimsa heaven.
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