| 1. Adi-Buddhi (Sanskrit) [from adi first, original + buddhi from the verbal root budh to know, perceive, awaken] Original or primordial buddhi; the cosmic essence of divine intelligence imbodied in adi-buddha, the divine-spiritual head of the cosmic hierarchy of compassion, "the spiritual, omniscient and omnipotent root of divine intelligence" (SD 1:572). Adi-buddhi or dharmakaya is "the mystic, universally diffused essence . . . the all-pervading supreme and absolute intelligence with its periodically manifesting Divinity -- 'Avalokiteshvara' . . . the aggregate intelligence of the universal intelligences including that of the Dhyan Chohans even of the highest order" (ML 90) |
