See “bases of miraculous power.”

Typically a set of five: the ability to replicate one’s body and dissolve that replica, the ability to pass through solid objects, the ability to walk on water, the ability to fly, and the ability to touch the sun and moon with one’s hand.

The ability to make manifest miraculous displays evident to ordinary beings.

Various magical abilities developed as the byproduct of meditative concentration (dhyāna). These are closely related to the superknowledges (abhijñā), although knowledge of ṛddhi is listed as one of the five mundane superknowledges, in which case it specifically refers to the magical display of physical marvels such as walking on water, flying, bilocating, and so forth, while the other four refer to psychic abilities. See also “superknowledge.”

One of the five supernormal knowledges.

The ability to make manifest miraculous displays evident to ordinary beings.

The ability to make manifest miraculous displays evident to ordinary beings.

The ability to make manifest miraculous displays evident to ordinary beings.

The supernatural powers of a śrāvaka correspond to the first abhijnā: “Being one he becomes many, being many he becomes one; he becomes visible, invisible; goes through walls, ramparts and mountains without being impeded, just as through air; he immerses himself in the earth and emerges from it as if in water; he goes on water without breaking through it, as if on [solid] earth; he travels through the air crosslegged like a winged bird; he takes in his hands and touches the moon and the sun, those two wonderful, mighty beings, and with his body he extends his power as far as the Brahma world” (Lamotte 2003: 20). The great supernatural powers (mahāṛddhi) of bodhisattvas are: “causing trembling, blazing, illuminating, rendering invisible, transforming, coming and going across obstacles, reducing or enlarging worlds, inserting any matter into one’s own body, assuming the aspects of those one frequents, appearing and disappearing, submitting everyone to one’s will, dominating the supernormal power of others, giving intellectual clarity to those who lack it, giving mindfulness, bestowing happiness, and finally, emitting beneficial rays.” (Lamotte 2003: 30).

A general term for an array of extraordinary or superhuman powers, the word for which derives from a verb meaning “to succeed” or “to flourish.”

Also rendered here as “magical powers.”

See “magical power.”

See “magical abilitites.”

See “miraculous power.”