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manāyatana dhammāyatana

By the visual organ cakkhāyatana is meant the sensitive part of the eye cakkhu -…

…In the Com. to M. 77, where āyatana is explained by ‘means’ kārana it is said: The abhibhāyatana through their counteracting may master…

…and external sense sources āyatana. Only Nibbāna, which is unconditioned and not a construction asankhata, is permanent, stable, still,…

…consciousness viññānañcāyatana, the perception of the sphere of Infinite space is extinguished. Having entered the sphere of nothingness…

[[auditory organ]]Auditory organ: Ear, ability to hear see: āyatana.

…(see: khandha dhātu āyatana ) #āyatana, form, feeling, perception, mental constructions and consciousness, all these things are of the…

Bases: The 12 of the perceptual process: āyatana

…4 immaterial spheres arūpāyatana see. jhāna: of unbounded space, unbounded consciousness, nothingness,…

Cakkhu: ‘eye’ see: āyatana The foll. 5 kinds of ‘eyes’ are mentioned and explained in CNid. PTS, p. 235; the first 3 also in It. 52: 1. the…

Cakkhāyatana: ’the base;visual organ; ’ see: āyatana.

…of nothingness ākiñcaññāyatana* see: jhāna 7; ‘d. of mind from the conditions of existence’, for of mind due to non-attention to all…

Eye: 5 kinds, see: cakkhu - Visual organ, see: āyatana.

Eye-organ: see: āyatana

[[gustatory organ]]Gustatory organ: see: āyatana.

…are:

6 Bases āyatana:

1. eye: cakkhu
2. ear: sota
3. nose: ghāna
4. tongue: jivhā
5. body: kāya
   6….

…of nothingness ākiñcaññāyatana and abides therein.

8;Through the total overcoming of the sphere of nothingness he reaches…

…dhātu or sense-sources āyatana and their components; and wherever the 3 characteristics tilakkhana are applied. The majority of Sutta…

Pasāda-rūpa: ‘sensitive materiality’, is a name for the 5 physical sense-organs responding to sense-stimuli. Cf. āyatana

…as 6th, the mind-base manāyatana, i.e. consciousness.

Mentality nāma see: 3 is for the 5 physical bases āyatana or sense-organs, a…

Titthāyatana: the 3 ‘articles of heretical belief’. which in A. III, 61 are declared as leading to inactivity, are: 1 the belief that all…

Ākiñcaññāyatana: The sphere of nothingness; see: jhāna 7.

…Infinite space ākāsānañcāyatana. According to Abhidhamma philosophy, endless space has no objective reality being purely conceptual, which is…

Ākāsānañcāyatana: ‘Sphere of Infinite space’, is identical with the 1st formless absorption; see: jhāna 5.

…seeing, hearing, etc. can ever arise. Cf. āyatana paccaya.