Buddhacaksus

buddhacakṣus (P. buddhacakkhu; T. sangs rgyas kyi spyan; C. foyan 佛眼). Translated as “buddha eye”, "eye of buddha", "vision of buddhahood", "eye of awakened being", etc.

One of the five “eyes” (pañcacakṣus), or qualities of vision, possessed by a buddha, namely:

• the eye made of flesh (māṃsacakṣus),
• the divine eye (divyacakṣus),
• the eye of insight (prajñācaksus),
• the eye of Dharma (dharmacakṣus), and
• the buddha-eye.

In the Mahayana, the buddha-eye is the omniscience (sarvākārajñatā) seeing both how things are ultimately and how they manifest in their variety. This omniscience is obtained in the full awakening of final enlightenment (anuttara-samyaksambodhi).

According to the Princeton Dictionary, the buddha eye includes the other four types of "eye".

Sources

• Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University 

External links

• སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་སྤྱན་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary