āyatana

Sanskrit:आयतन āyatana
Pāli: आयतन āyatana
Tibetan: སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ skye mched
Thai: อายตนะ
English: entrances
Italiano: entrate

Grammatical information:
Etymologized as āyaṁ tanvanti (“they spread out the entrance”) and explained as the “entrance gates of consciousness” (āya-dvāra).

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Further information:
This can be divided into two categories, inner entrances and outer entrances. The inner entrances refer to entrances which produces cognition (the support - āśraya) of specific type; eg., eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind entrances which produce cognition of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching while the outer entrances (or object support - ālambana) is the corresponding object of form, sound, smell, tactual object, and mind object(dharmadhātu).

See alsoṣaḍāyatana
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