Cyutyupapattijñāna
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cyutyupapattijñāna [alt. cyutyupapādānusmṛti] (P. cutūpapātañāṇa; T. 'chi 'pho ba dang skye ba mkhyen pa འཆི་འཕོ་བ་དང་སྐྱེ་བ་མཁྱེན་པ་; C. shengsizhi 生死智).[1][2] Literally, “recollection of the disappearance [in one life] and rebirth [in another].”[1] That is, “insight into the future rebirth destinies” of all other beings.[1] This insight is identified as:[1]
- the second of the “three knowledges” (trividyā) that were obtained by the Buddha during the "three watches of the night" at the time of his awakening.
- an aspect, or by-product, of the divine eye (divyacakṣus)
- one of the six superknowledges (abhijñā) mentioned in the sutras
- one of the ten powers of a buddha (i.e., cyutyupapattijñāna-bala)
The Princeton Dictionary states:
- This recollection comes as a by-product of the enlightenment experience of a “worthy one” (arhat), and is an insight achieved by the Buddha during the second watch of the night of his own enlightenment. Through his enlightenment, the adept realizes not only that himself and all beings have been governed by the association between past actions (karman) and their fruitions (vipāka) throughout all their past lives; but through this insight, he also realizes that all other beings continue to be governed by their actions, and he is able to observe where beings will be reborn in the future as well.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. cyutyupapattijñāna.
- ↑
འཆི་འཕོ་བ་དང་སྐྱེ་བ་མཁྱེན་པ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University
Nyanatiloka Thera (2019), Nyanaponika Thera, ed., Buddhist Dictionary: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines, Pariyatti Publishing
Further reading
Dharmachakra Translation Committee (2023), The Precious Discourse on the Blessed One’s Extensive Wisdom That Leads to Infinite Certainty, 84000 Collection- Bhikkhu Bodhi (2009),
The Greater Discourse on the Lion’s Roar (MN 12), SuttaCentral - Thanissaro Bhikkhu (1998).
Maha-Saccaka Sutta: The Longer Discourse to Saccaka (excerpt) (MN 36), Dhammatalks.org
འཆི་འཕོ་བ་དང་སྐྱེ་བ་མཁྱེན་པ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
འཆི་འཕོ་བ་དང་སྐྱེ་བ་མཁྱེན་པའི་སྟོབས་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary