ten powers　十力 The ten abilities of a Buddha to know: 1) good from evil, 2) the karma of all sentient beings past, present, and future, and its results, 3) all forms of meditation, 4) the superior and inferior capacities of sentient beings, 5) what sentient beings think and desire, 6) the different levels of existence of sentient beings, 7) the sesults of various methods of practice, 8) the transmigratory states of all sentient beings and the courses of karma which they follow, 9) the past lives of all sentient beings and the state of nondefilement, and 10) the means to destroy all evil passions.