【英汉对照佛学词典】

三明


(1) "Three awarenesses": The awareness of the causes and conditions remaining from prior lifetimes (which corrects the view of eternalism); the awareness of future affairs (which corrects the view of nihi^ism); uncontaminated awareness (which ends the creation of defiled views). (2) three kinds of wisdom among the six supernatural powers 六神通. (1) The power of divine vision 天眼通, wherein they can observe the full course of passage by sentient beings through the six destinies. (2) the power of the knowledge of previous lifetimes 宿命通,宿住通, whereby they know the events of countless kalpas of previous lifetimes experienced by themselves, as well as all the beings in the six destinies; (3) the power of the extinction of contamination 漏尽通, whereby they completely extinguish all the afflictions of the three realms, and thus are no longer subject to rebirth in the three realms.