In Buddhism, āyatana (Pāli; Sanskrit: आयतन) is a "center of experience" or "mental home," which create one's experience. The related term ''''' (Pāli; Skt. ''''') refers to six cognitive functions, namely sight, hearing, smelling, tasting, body-cognition, and mind-cognition.
In Buddhism, āyatana (Pāli; Sanskrit: आयतन) is a "center of experience" or "mental home," which create one's experience. The related term ''''' (Pāli; Skt. ''') refers to six cognitive functions, namely sight, hearing, smelling, tasting, body-cognition, and mind-cognition.
Āyatana may refer to both ordinary experience and the chain of processes leading to bondage, as to awakened experience centered in detachment and meditative accomplishment. The Buddhist path aims to relocate one from the ordinary, sensual centers of experience to the "mental home" of the purified, liberated awareness of the jhanas.
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