Five faculties of sensations

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The five faculties that are sensations are a subset of the twenty-two faculties, according to the Sanskrit Abhidharma tradition:[1][2][3]

  • The faculty of pleasure (Skt. sukhendriyam; Tib. བདེ་བའི་དབང་པོ་, Wyl. bde ba’i dbang po)
  • The faculty of suffering (Skt. duḥkhendriyam; Tib. སྡུག་བསྔལ་གྱི་དབང་པོ་, Wyl. sdug bsngal gyi dbang po)
  • The faculty of mental ease (Skt. saumanasyendriyam; Tib. ཡིད་བདེ་བའི་དབང་པོ་, Wyl. yid bde ba’i dbang po)
  • The faculty of mental discomfort (Skt. daurmanasyendriyam; Tib. ཡིད་མི་བདེ་བའི་དབང་པོ་, Wyl. yid mi bde ba’i dbang po)
  • The faculty of indifference or neutrality (Skt. upekṣendriyam; Tib. བཏང་སྙོམས་ཀྱི་དབང་པོ་, Wyl. btang snyoms kyi dbang po).

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Notes

  1. This list is enumerated in the Abhidharma-kosa, the Khenjuk, etc.
  2. Mipham Rinpoche 2004, "Chapter 6: The Faculties: Indriya".
  3. RW icon height 18px.png Five faculties of feelings, Rigpa Shedra Wiki

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