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       'Understanding', 'Knowledge', 'Wisdom', 'Insight', comprises a very
     wide field.  The specific Buddhist knowledge or wisdom, however, as
     part of the noble eightfold path (magga) to deliverance, is Insight
     (vipassana), ie. the intuitive knowledge which brings about the
     realization of Nibbana, and which consists in the penetration of the
     Impermanency (anicca), Misery (dukkha) and Impersonality (anatta) of
     all forms of existence.

       With regard to the condition of its arising one distinguishes three
     kinds of knowledge: Knowledge based on Learning (suta-maya-panna),
     knowledge based on Thinking (cinta-maya-panna), knowledge based on
     Mental Development (bhavana-maya-panna).