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'''Knowledge of all aspects''', or '''omniscience''' (Skt. ''sarvajñāna''; Tib. [[རྣམ་མཁྱེན་]],  ''namkhyen'', [[Wyl.]] ''rnam mkhyen'') is the first of the [[eight topics]] of the ''[[Abhisamayalankara]]''.

==Definition==
Knowledge of all aspects (or [[omniscience]]) is defined as knowing directly, and in a single instant, all aspects, without exception, of things in their real nature and in all their multiplicity. 

==Subdivisions==
It can be subdivided into [[Two aspects of omniscience|two aspects]]: 
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An illustration of the former is the true [[cessation]] present in the continuum of the noble [[Buddha]]. The latter includes both the omniscience which knows the features of all [[knowable phenomena]] without exception, and the omniscience which knows the [[seventy points]], the chief amongst all causes and effects.

==Parameters==
It is present only in the continuum of a noble Buddha.

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