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. In general, this refers to the most common (12-entrances(dvādaśāyatanāni)list.The inner entrances refer to entrances which produces cognition of specific type; eg., eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind(mana) entrances while the outer entrances (ālambana - object of support) is the corresponding object of form, sound, smell, tactual object, and mind object(dharmāyatana). The inner entrances are dharmas of “form-clarity” (rūpa-prasāda), a derivative type of form that can function as the basis (āśraya - the support) for the arising of a corresponding consciousness (vijñāna) when an object is present. The mind-entrance include all of the 6 consciousnesses(ṣaḍvijñāna)(āśrita - the supported).

See also ṣaḍāyatana
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