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སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག | Glossary of Terms
སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག
skye mched drug
ṣaḍāyatana
- Term
- Six sense sources
- སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག
- skye mched drug
- ṣaḍāyatana
The five faculties along with the mind.
- Six sense sources
- སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག
- skye mched drug
- ṣaḍāyatana
See sense source.”
- Six sense sources
- སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག
- skye mched drug
- ṣadāyatana
The six sense organs of eyes, ears, nose, tongue, tactile sense, and mind, together with their respective objects of forms, sounds, smells, flavors, tactile objects, and mental objects. See also “sense source.”
- Six sense sources
- སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག
- skye mched drug
- ṣaḍāyatana
The fifth link of dependent arising.
- Six sense fields
- སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག
- skye mched drug
- ṣaḍāyatana
Fifth of the twelve links of dependent origination, it consists of the six sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and thinking mind) together with their respective objects (forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, and dharmas).
- Six sense fields
- སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག
- skye mched drug
- ṣaḍāyatana
Fifth of the twelve links of dependent origination.
- Six sense fields
- སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག
- skye mched drug
- ṣaḍāyatana
Fifth of the twelve links of dependent origination, it consists of the six sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and thinking mind) together with their respective objects (forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, and dharmas).
- Six entrances
- སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག
- skye mched drug
- ṣaḍ-āyatanāni
Eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind.
- Six entrances
- སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག
- skye mched drug
- ṣaḍāyatana
Six sets of similar dharmas under which all compounded and uncompounded dharmas may be included: eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind, and their objects—visible forms, sounds, smells, flavors, tangibles, and dharmas. The fifth of the twelve parts of dependent arising. Another name for the “twelve entrances.”
- Six sense bases
- སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག
- skye mched drug
- ṣaḍāyatana
The fifth of the twelve links of dependent origination. See “dependent origination.”
- Six sense bases
- སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག
- skye mched drug
- ṣaḍāyatana
The five senses and their objects, plus the mind and phenomena known to the mind. Together they comprise the fifth of the twelve links of dependent origination.
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- Six cognitive fields
- སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག
- skye mched drug
- ṣaḍāyatana
Each field comprises one of the six senses with its respective sense-consciousness and the range of objects accessible to it.
- Six spheres
- སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག
- skye mched drug
- ṣaḍāyatana
Six sets of similar dharmas under which all compounded and uncompounded dharmas may be included: eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind, and their objects—visible forms, sounds, smells, flavors, tangibles, and dharmas.