Dvāra
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dvāra. Literally "door," "gate," etc. The Abhidharma identifies three doors of action (tridvāra) and six sense doors (cakkhudvāra).
A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma states:
- The term “door” (dvāra) is used metaphorically in the Abhidhamma to denote the media through which the mind interacts with the objective world. Three doors of action are specified—body, speech, and mind—the channels through which the mind acts upon the world (see V, §§22-24). Again, six doors of cognition are recognized: the six sense doors by which the citta and cetasikas go out to meet the object and by which objects enter into range of the citta and cetasikas.[1]
Six sense doors
The six sense doors are the "doors" of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and the mind.
Five sense doors
A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma describes the five sense doors (P. pañcadvāra; T. sgo lnga སྒོ་ལྔ་[2]) as "the sensitive matter of the five sense faculties."[1]
This text also states:
- The eye itself is the eye door: Five of the doors are material phenomena (rūpa), namely, the sensitive matter (pasādarūpa) in each of the five sense organs. Each of these serves as a door by which the citta and cetasikas occurring in a cognitive process gain access to their object, and by which the object becomes accessible to the cittas and cetasikas. Eye-sensitivity is the door for the cittas belonging to an eye-door process, enabling them to cognize visible forms through the eye. The same holds for the other sensitivities of the sense organs in relation to their respective processes and objects.[1]
Sixth sense door
The sixth sense door it the mind door (P. manodvāra).
A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma states:
- The life-continuum (bhavaṅga) is called the mind door: Unlike the first five doors, the mind door (manodvāra) is not material but mental (nāma), namely, the bhavanga consciousness. When an object is to be cognized by a mind-door process, the cittas belonging to that process gain access to the object solely through the mind door, without immediate dependence on any material sense faculty.[1]
Three doors of action
The three doors of action are:[3]
- bodily action
- verbal action
- mental action
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Bhikkhu Bodhi 2000, Chapter III. Compendium of Miscellaneous.
- ↑
སྒོ་ལྔ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ Bhikkhu Bodhi 2000, Chapter V. Compendium of Process-freed.
Sources
Bhikkhu Bodhi, ed. (2000), A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma, Pariyatti Publishing