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 of kāmadhātu. From this list, inner entrances refer to entrances which produces cognition of specific type, which are 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). The list of āyatanas might vary for other dhātus.

See also ṣaḍāyatana
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