ten powers ［十力］ ( jū-riki): Ten powers that a Buddha possesses described in The Great Commentary on the Abhidharma and other treatises. They are (1) the power of knowing what is true and what is not; (2) the power of knowing karmic causality at work in the lives of all beings throughout past, present, and future; (3) the power of knowing all stages of concentration, emancipation, and meditation; (4) the power of knowing the conditions of life of all people; (5) the power of judging all people’s levels of understanding; (6) the power of discerning the superiority or inferiority of all people’s capacity; (7) the power of knowing the effects of all people’s actions; (8) the power of remembering past lifetimes; (9) the power of knowing when each person will be born and will die, and in what realm that person will be reborn; and (10) the power of eradicating all illusions. Some explanations of the ten powers give a different order or differ slightly in content.