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'''Eighteen dhatus''' (Skt. ''aṣṭadaśa dhātu''; [[Wyl.]] ''khams bco brgyad'') — a classification of all [[knowable thing]]s into eighteen 'elements'. | '''Eighteen dhatus''' (Skt. ''aṣṭadaśa dhātu''; Tib. ཁམས་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་, ''kham chobgyé'', [[Wyl.]] ''khams bco brgyad'') — a classification of all [[knowable thing]]s into eighteen 'elements'. | ||
*the '''six sense objects''' (Skt. ''viṣayadhātu''; Wyl. ''dmigs yul gyi khams''): | *the '''six sense objects''' (Skt. ''viṣayadhātu''; Tib. དམིགས་ཡུལ་གྱི་ཁམས་, Wyl. ''dmigs yul gyi khams''): | ||
**visible forms (Skt. ''rūpa-dhātu'') | **visible forms (Skt. ''rūpa-dhātu'') | ||
**sounds (Skt. ''śabda-dhātu'') | **sounds (Skt. ''śabda-dhātu'') | ||
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**mental objects (Skt. ''dharma dhātu'') | **mental objects (Skt. ''dharma dhātu'') | ||
*'''six sense faculties''' (Skt. '' | *'''six sense faculties''' (Skt. ''indriyadhātu''; Tib. དབང་པོའི་ཁམས་, Wyl. ''dbang po'i khams''): | ||
**eye faculty (Skt. ''cakṣur-dhātu'') | **eye faculty (Skt. ''cakṣur-dhātu'') | ||
**ear faculty (Skt. ''śrotra-dhātu'') | **ear faculty (Skt. ''śrotra-dhātu'') | ||
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**mental faculty (Skt. ''mano-dhātu'') | **mental faculty (Skt. ''mano-dhātu'') | ||
*the '''[[six consciousnesses|six sense consciousnesses]]''' (Skt. '' | *the '''[[six consciousnesses|six sense consciousnesses]]''' (Skt. ''vijñānadhātu''; Tib. རྣམ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་ཁམས་, Wyl. ''rnam shes kyi khams'') | ||
**eye-consciousness (Skt. ''cakṣur-vijñanadhātu'') | **eye-consciousness (Skt. ''cakṣur-vijñanadhātu'') | ||
**ear-consciousness (Skt. ''śrotra-vijñanadhātu'') | **ear-consciousness (Skt. ''śrotra-vijñanadhātu'') | ||
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==Alternative Translations== | ==Alternative Translations== | ||
*eighteen components of perception ([[LCN]]) | |||
*eighteen elements | *eighteen elements | ||
*eighteen psychophysical bases (Dorje & Kapstein) | *eighteen psychophysical bases (Dorje & Kapstein) | ||
*eighteen sensory spectra (Dorje & Coleman) | *eighteen sensory spectra (Dorje & Coleman) | ||
[[Category:Abhidharma]] | [[Category:Abhidharma]] | ||
[[Category:Eighteen dhatus| ]] | |||
[[Category:Enumerations]] | [[Category:Enumerations]] | ||
[[Category:18-Eighteen]] | [[Category:18-Eighteen]] | ||
Latest revision as of 08:53, 14 September 2023
Eighteen dhatus (Skt. aṣṭadaśa dhātu; Tib. ཁམས་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་, kham chobgyé, Wyl. khams bco brgyad) — a classification of all knowable things into eighteen 'elements'.
- the six sense objects (Skt. viṣayadhātu; Tib. དམིགས་ཡུལ་གྱི་ཁམས་, Wyl. dmigs yul gyi khams):
- visible forms (Skt. rūpa-dhātu)
- sounds (Skt. śabda-dhātu)
- smells (Skt. gandha-dhātu)
- tastes (Skt. rasa-dhātu)
- textures (Skt. spraṣṭavya-dhātu)
- mental objects (Skt. dharma dhātu)
- six sense faculties (Skt. indriyadhātu; Tib. དབང་པོའི་ཁམས་, Wyl. dbang po'i khams):
- eye faculty (Skt. cakṣur-dhātu)
- ear faculty (Skt. śrotra-dhātu)
- nose faculty (Skt. ghrāṇa-dhātu)
- tongue faculty (Skt. jihva-dhātu)
- body faculty (Skt. kāya-dhātu)
- mental faculty (Skt. mano-dhātu)
- the six sense consciousnesses (Skt. vijñānadhātu; Tib. རྣམ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་ཁམས་, Wyl. rnam shes kyi khams)
- eye-consciousness (Skt. cakṣur-vijñanadhātu)
- ear-consciousness (Skt. śrotra-vijñanadhātu)
- nose-consciousness (Skt. ghrāṇa-vijñanadhātu)
- tongue-consciousness (Skt. jihva-vijñanadhātu)
- body-consciousness (Skt. kāya-vijñanadhātu)
- mind-consciousness (Skt. mano-vijñanadhātu)
According to Abhidharma, the eighteen dhatus are categorized differently, i.e. in relation to the five skandhas.
Alternative Translations
- eighteen components of perception (LCN)
- eighteen elements
- eighteen psychophysical bases (Dorje & Kapstein)
- eighteen sensory spectra (Dorje & Coleman)