སྐྱེ་མཆེད་

JH-ENG

sense-sphere; sensory sphere; source [of consciousness]; sphere

JH-OE

{C}sense-field; occasion for

JH-SKT, YOGA

Ayatana

JH-SKT

{MSA,C,MV}*

OT

[152] (ayatanaM) sems dang sems byung rnams skye zhing 'phel ba'i sgor gyur pa'am/ gzung 'dzin gyi sgo nas rnam shes yul la skye ba dang mched par gyur pa'i gnas/ ...

JH-DIVT

དབྱེ་བ། 

1 ཕྱིའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་

2 ནང་གི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་

JH-DIVE

Div: external sense-spheres (i.e., the six sense-spheres of forms, sounds, odors, tastes, tangible objects, and [other] phenomena) and internal sense-spheres (i.e., the six sense-spheres of the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mental sense powers)

JH-C

Comment: That which opens, or increases, the production of consciousness.

DM

445 III 58.3 ff. 9 60. Germano, Poetic Thought 934. Tshad Rig. Based in subject-object dualism, the particular sensory consciousness would seem to project toward the object, produce and enhance it. The internal-to-external medium in which this apparent projection takes place is the skye mched. mig sogs yul yul can bcu gnyis. Utpal 31.3. skye mched seem to exist in a liminal space between the objective realm and the subjective one: de'i stobs kyis rlung lnga nang du chings pas 'byung ba lnga'i skye mched mthong gsal mdangs phyed pas / rig pa cer bu la sang nge sa le la bkrag chags pas / sa'i rlung zind pa'i rang mdangs su 'od du du ba lta bu gsal... Zhi-byed Coll. V 46.6.

JV

ayatanas, (arise - spread), (interactional, operational, cognitive, sense, psychological action) fields, sources, interactional bases, localized fields of sensations, sensory creation of one's world, Vasubhandu, SA ci yang med pa'i skye mched, zil gyis gnon pa'i skye mched, rnam shes mtha' yas skye mched, sphere (name for the 4 formless dhyana), sense-bases/factors, sense bases, sources and places of origin of the senses, inner and outward organs of sense, field of extension (consciousness emerges and spreads), sense faculties, experiential medium, bases, sense sources

IW

1) ayatana * " the sources, bases [of cognition], faculty, sense fields/ factors/ spheres/ mediums/ bases, constituent[s of experience, arising expansion [as in {mu bzhi} entrances; 

2) perception, state of mind; 

3) source [of perception]; 

4) six objects and six sense powers/ sense bases. constituent[s] of experience, ayatanas, arising expansion

RB

sense field

RY

Sense bases, ayatana. The five senses and their five objects as well as the mental faculty and mental objects. 1) [ayatana] "medium for a sense perception to arise," the sources, bases, base of cognition, faculty, sense fields / factors / spheres, sense mediums, sour of perception constituent[s) of experience; arising expansion [as in མུ་བཞི་. entrances. abbr. of སྐྱེ་མཆེད་བཅུ་གཉིས།

2) perception, state of mind. 

3) source. 

4) six objects and the six sense powers or sense bases; {nyer spyod rnam par shes pa skye ba'i sgo las yul gzhan la mched par byed pa'i don gyis na skye mched ces bya'o} sense door, sense-factors, sense-field, source, experiential medium. Sources of perception, the six objects and the six sense powers or sense bases; constituent[s] of experience, arising expansion [as in མུ་བཞི་.]. source [thd]. 

1) ayatana; sense bases, sense-field, source, the sources of perception; The twelve sense factors are the five senses or the organs of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and the mental faculty as well as their corresponding objects which are visual form, sound, smell, taste, texture, and the mental object. 2) perception-sphere/s. A variety of states of meditative absorption, possibly lasting many aeons within the four formless realms. See also  སྐྱེ་མཆེད་མུ་བཞི་ 'fourfold spheres of perception.' See under  གཟུགས་མེད་ཁམས་ 'Formless Realms.' 3) base of perception. [experiential] medium. ayatana; source; Sources of perception, the six objects and the six sense powers or sense bases; sensory field; sense-field