Six sense faculties
| Six sense faculties & six sense bases |
|---|
| Five faculties (Five bases) |
| Sixth sense faculty |
| mind faculty (manendriya) |
| Sixth sense base |
| mind base (mano-āyatana) |
The six sense faculties (Skt. ṣaḍ indriya; T. dbang po drug དབང་པོ་དྲུག) are internal sense faculties that have the capacity to process information[1] and support the six types of consciousness.[2]
There are five facutlies that process information from the physical sense organs:
- eye faculty (cakṣurindriya) - the capacity to process visual information
- ear faculty (śrotrendriya) - the capacity to process sounds
- nose faculty (ghrāṇendriya) - the capacity to process smells
- tongue faculty (jihvendriya) - the capacity to process tastes
- body faculty (kāyendriya) - the capacity to process touch
And one faculty that processes mental objects:
- mind faculty (manendriya)
The first five sense faculties are included in the aggregate of form.
These six faculties control the apprehending of their individual objects (the six sense objects).[3]
These six sense faculties are identified as:
- six of the dhatus within the eighteen dhatus
- part of the list of twenty-two faculties
The first five sense faculties are the same as the first five of the six sense bases within the scheme of the twelve ayatanas. The distinction between the five factulties and the five sense bases is that in these two schemes are looking at the five sense objects from different perspectives.[4]
Alternate translations
- Six cognitive powers; six faculties (Tsepak Rigzin; Steinert dict)
- Six "capacities" (Goodman)
Notes
- ↑ Goodman 2020, s.v. "Chapter 5: Dhatus and Channel Processing".
- ↑ Thupten Jinpa 2017, s.v. Chapter 1:Systems of Classification.
- ↑ Mipham Rinpoche 2004, s.v. "Chapter 6: The Faculties: Indriya".
- ↑ Khenjuk notes, 2020
Sources
Mipham Rinpoche (2004), Gateway to Knowledge, vol. I, translated by Kunsang, Erik Pema, Rangjung Yeshe Publications- Goodman, Steven D. (2020), The Buddhist Psychology of Awakening: An In-Depth Guide to the Abhidharma (Apple Books ed.), Shambhala Publications
- Thupten Jinpa, ed. (2017), Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Volume 1: The Physical World, translated by Coghlan, Ian James, Wisdom Publications
External links
Six sense faculties, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
dbang_po_drug, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
དབང་པོ་དྲུག་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary