Ārammana: Object. There are six: visible object, sound, odour, taste, body-contact, mental-object. The mental-object dhammārammana may be physical or mental, past, present or future, real or …

Paccaya: ‘condition’, is something on which something else, the so-called ‘conditioned thing’, is dependent, and without which the latter cannot be. Many are the ways in which one thing, or one o …

Tadārammana-citta: ‘registering consciousness’ see: Tab. I, 40-49, 56, is the last stage in the complete process of cognition citta-vīthi immediately before sinking into the subconscious. It do …

Ārammanādhipati, Predominance Conditional Relation. see: paccaya

*Āyatana:
* 1: Spheres, is a name for the four formless absorptions; see: jhāna 5-8.
2: The 12 sources or bases on which depend the mental processes, consist of five physical sense-organs an …