（1） Pass， pass through， penetrate， permeate. （2） Through， via， throughout， all over， total， together with. （3） In Tiantai and some other teaching classification systems， 通 means a common， or "shared" teaching， that is understood by different types of people. （4） In Huayan and related schools of Buddhist thought， 通 refers to the lack of boundary between absolute 理 and relative 事， or between individual phenomena 事. （5） Following the Huayan understanding， Wonhyo 元晓 taught what he called 通佛教， or "Interpenetrated Buddhism" arguing that when the Buddhist doctrines of the various schools are properly understood， there is no conflict between them. （6） The completely free and unhindered functional ability of a buddha or a bodhisattva. Superhuman power; spiritual power. （7） To translate or interpret.