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) which is also an experience of the absolute. Applying the categories of aesthetic to religious experience was developed much later by the Gosvamins,
brahmans
who are descendants of Nity
ndanda.
Abhinive
a
(love of the world)
:
see
ASMITA
.
Abhiññ
(P
li),
Abhijñ
(Skt., ‘higher knowledge’). In Buddhism, any of six supernormal powers:
(i) psycho-kinesis,
(ii) clairaudience,
(iii) telepathy,
(iv) knowledge of the rebirth of others and of the karmic factors,
(v) knowledge of one's own former rebirths,
(vi) knowledge of the extinction of the
savas
.
Abhirati
.
The
paradise
of the
Buddha
Ak
obhya
, the ‘Realm of Joy’. It is the Eastern paradise (see
SUKH
VAT
), but in the sense that Buddhist heavens or hells have only the degree of reality that humans confer upon them. They seem real to those who are still in ignorance.

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