Omniscience
Below is a series of posts I have added on the topic of omniscience , an key feature of buddhahood. Today I am adding one more. See way down at the end of the page. [ September 7, 2011] ------------------------------------------- Bibliotheca Buddhica: "That Buddha is omniscient does not mean that he knows the names of all plants and the names of all animals, etc., etc., but it means that he possesses a knowledge of the four truths, that is to say, he possesses in the highest degree philosophic intuition. It is the highest knowledge as conceived by Spinoza not the kind of omniscience imagined by unphilosophic minds." Doing some research on the Abhisamaya-alamkara , I found an old work by Levi and Stcherbatsky on Google Books . This particular comment (above) caught my eye, because it is something I wonder about. One of the distinctions between a Hinayana arhat (someone who has achieved personal nirvana) and buddha (a perfectly and completely enlightened being) is