Cognition that is able to produce many different simultaneous emanations that are any one of three types: (1) physical emanations made of the five elements of earth, water, fire, wind, and space, (2) verbal emanations – speaking in such a way that various people can understand the words in their own languages and at their own levels of understanding, or (3) mental emanations of thoughts and levels of mind, such as awareness of many levels of meaning of a Dharma passage. According to another listing it also includes the extraphysical powers to fly through the air, walk on water, pass through solid objects, and increase or decrease the size of one's body. One of the six types of advanced awareness gained as a byproduct of the attainment of an actual state of the first level of mental constancy (the first dhyana).
Tibetan: རྫུ་འཕྲུལ་གྱི་མངོན་ཤེས། rdzu-'phrul-gyi mngon-shes
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