མིག་གི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་
Transliteration: mig gi skye mched
<phrase> "Eye āyatana", "the sense-door of the eye", "the sense-source of the eye". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "cakṣhu āyatana". One of the six ནང་གི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག་ internal āyatanas q.v. This āyatana which corresponds to the sense faculty of the eye which becomes a source of the arising of eye consciousness due to the influence of visible forms.
མིག་སོགས་ནང་གི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག་
Transliteration: mig sogs nang gi skye mched drug
<phrase> "The six internal igniters of the eye, and so on, the other physical and the mind sense of humans".
སྐྱེ་མཆེད་བཅུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: skye mched bcu gnyis
<enum> "The twelve āyatanas". Human beings have twelve སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ "āyatanas" q.v. [NDS] gives their abbrev. names as: 1) མིག་ "eye"; 2) རྣ་བ་ "ear"; 3) སྣ་ "nose"; 4) ལྕེ་ "tongue"; 5) ལུས་ "body"; 6) ཡིད་ "mind"; 7) གཟུགས་ "form"; 8) སྒྲ་ "sound"; 9) དྲི་ "smell"; 10) རོ་ "taste"; 11) རེག་བྱ་ "touch"; 12) ཆོས་ "dharmas".
These are called in full: 1) མིག་གི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ "eye āyatana"; 2) རྣ་བའ…
སྐྱེ་མཆེད་
Transliteration: skye mched
<noun> "Āyatana". Translation of the Sanskrit "āyatana". The āyatanas are defined as the means by which རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ་ consciousness of ཡུལ་ an object སྐྱེ་བ་ arises in and / or མཆེད་པ་ ignites and blazes in a sentient being. The āyatanas were said by the Buddha to be like the doors or causes to the production of the six sense consciousness. There are སྐྱེ་མཆེད་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve āyatanas: the…
སྣའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་
Transliteration: sna'i skye mched
<phrase> "Nose āyatana", "the sense-door of the nose", "the sense-source of the nose". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "ghraṇa āyatana". One of the six ནང་གི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག་ internal āyatanas q.v. This āyatana corresponds to the sense faculty of the nose which becomes a source of the arising of nose consciousness due to the influence of smells.
སྒྲའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་
Transliteration: sgra'i skye mched
<noun> "Sound āyatana", "the sense-door of sound", "the sense-source of sound". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "śhabdaḥ āyatana". The second of the six ཕྱིའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག་ external āyatanas q.v. This āyatana corresponds to sounds which become a source of the arising of ear consciousness when contacting the ear faculty.
སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག་
Transliteration: skye mched drug
<phrase> "The six sources", "the six āyatanas". Translation of the Sanskrit "ṣhaḍāyatana". The six āyatanas are a crucial part of the process that drives sentient beings' cycling through births in deluded existence, being the fifth of the རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བའི་ཚུལ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve processes of dependent-related arising q.v. for more information. The āyatanas referred to here are the ན…
རོའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་
Transliteration: ro'i skye mched
<noun> "Taste āyatana", "the sense-door of taste", "the sense-source of taste". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "rasaḥ āyatana". The fourth of the six ཕྱིའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག་ external āyatanas q.v. This āyatana corresponds to tastes which become a source of the arising of taste consciousness when contacting the tongue faculty.
དྲིའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་
Transliteration: dri'i skye mched
<phrase> "Smell āyatana", "the sense-door of smell", "the sense-source of smell". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "gandhaḥ āyatana". The third of the six ཕྱིའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག་ external āyatanas q.v. This āyatana corresponds to smells which become a source of the arising of nose consciousness when contacting the nose faculty.
ལྕེའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་
Transliteration: lce'i skye mched
<noun> "Tongue āyatana", "the sense-door of the tongue", "the sense-source of the tongue". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] " jihvā āyatana". One of the six ནང་གི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག་ internal āyatanas q.v. This āyatana which corresponds to the sense faculty of the tongue which becomes a source of the arising of tongue consciousness due to the influence of tastes.
གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་
Transliteration: gzugs kyi skye mched
<phrase> "Form āyatana", "the sense-door of form", "the sense-source of form". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "rūpam āyatana". The first of the six ཕྱིའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག་ external āyatanas q.v. This āyatana corresponds to visual forms which become a source of the arising of eye consciousness when contacting the eye faculty.
རྣ་བའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་
Transliteration: rna ba'i skye mched
<noun> "Ear āyatana", "the sense-door of the ear", "the sense-source of the ear". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "śhrota āyatana". One of the six ནང་གི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག་ internal āyatanas q.v. This āyatana which corresponds to the sense faculty of the ear which becomes a source of the arising of ear consciousness due to the influence of sounds.
ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་
Transliteration: chos kyi skye mched
<noun> "Dharma āyatana", "the sense-door of dharmas", "the sense-source of dharmas". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "dharmaḥ āyatana". The sixth of the six ཕྱིའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག་ external āyatanas q.v. This āyatana corresponds to mentally known phenomena which become a source of the arising of mental consciousness when contacting the mental faculty.
ཡིད་ཀྱི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་
Transliteration: yid kyi skye mched
<noun> "Mind āyatana", "the sense-door of the mind", "the sense-source of the mind". Translation of the Sanskrit [MVP] "manāyatana". One of the six ནང་གི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག་ internal āyatanas q.v. This āyatana, corresponding to the sense faculty of the mind, becomes a source of the arising of mind consciousness due to the influence of dharmas (mentally known objects).
ལུས་ཀྱི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་
Transliteration: lus kyi skye mched
<noun> "Body āyatana", "the sense-door of the body", "the sense-source of the body". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "kāya āyatana". One of the six ནང་གི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག་ internal āyatanas q.v. This āyatana corresponds to the sense faculty of the body which becomes a source of the arising of body consciousness due to the influence of touchables.
