Manuscript painting depicting the Buddha miraculously making duplicates of himself at the Miracle at Savatthi. 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 (abhiññā / अभिञ्ञा ): psychic abilities , elemental manipulation (iddhi-vidhā ईद्बि विज ), clairaudience (dibba-sota दिब्यश्रुत ), telepathy (ceto-pariya चेतोपरिय ), recollection of one's own past lives (pubbe-nivāsanussati पुब्बेनिवासानुसत्ति ), seeing the past lives and rebirths of others as well as seeing through various dimensions/worlds near or far or microscopic or super macro level (dibba-cakkhu दिब्यचख्खु ), and the extinction of mental intoxicants (āsavakkhaya आश्रवक्षय ). Miracles found in Mahayana sutras generally play a more direct role in illustrating certain doctrines than miracles found in non-Mahayana Buddhist texts.
Manuscript painting depicting the Buddha miraculously making duplicates of himself at the Miracle at Savatthi. 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 (abhiññā ): psychic abilities (iddhi-vidhā ), clairaudience (dibba-sota ), telepathy (ceto-pariya ), recollection of one's own past lives (pubbe-nivāsanussati ), seeing the past lives and rebirths of others (dibba-cakkhu ), and the extinction of mental intoxicants (āsavakkhaya ). Miracles found in Mahayana sutras generally play a more direct role in illustrating certain doctrines than miracles found in non-Mahayana Buddhist texts.
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/ अभिञ्ञा
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, elemental manipulation
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ईद्बि विज
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दिब्यश्रुत
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चेतोपरिय
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पुब्बेनिवासानुसत्ति
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as well as seeing through various dimensions/worlds near or far or microscopic or super macro level
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दिब्यचख्खु
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आश्रवक्षय