aṣṭadaṡa dhātu
Tags: Terms & Concepts
Tibetan: ཁམས་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་
Tibetan (Wylie): khams bco brgyad
Tibetan (phonetics): kham chobgyé
English term: Eighteen elements
English definition: The most complete list describing all phenomena of saṃsāra, comprised of the eighteen elements (visual faculty, form, and visual consciousness; auditory faculty, sound, and auditory consciousness; olfactory faculty, odor, and olfactory consciousness; gustatory faculty, taste, and gustatory consciousness; somatic faculty, touch, and somatic consciousness; mental faculty, phenomena, and mental consciousness). Thus, all conditioned and unconditioned phenomena are included within this category.
Spanish: Dieciocho elementos
