The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (611 page)

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Daruma school
(Zen school)
:
Darwin, C.
(theory of)
:
Darw
sh
(member of Muslim religious fraternity)
:
see
DERW
SH
.
Da
abala
(Skt.; P
li,
dasabala
). The ten powers of a
Buddha
which confer knowledge on him of:
(i) what is possible and impossible;
(ii) the consequence of actions (
vip
ka
);
(iii) the abilities of other beings;
(iv) the direction of their lives;
(v) the constituents of manifest appearances;
(vi) the paths leading to the different domains of existence;
(vii) those leading to purity and impurity;
(viii) the states of meditation (
sam
dhi
) and absorptions (
dhy
na
);
(ix) deaths and reappearances;
(x) the eradication of all defilements (the three destructive poisons, Skt.,
rava
P
li,
sava
: of desire,
k
ma
, of becoming in manifest form,
bh
va
, and of ignorance,
avidy
/avijja
).

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