dvādaṡa āyatanāni

Tibetan: སྐྱེ་མཆེད་བཅུ་གཉིས་
Tibetan (Wylie): skye mched bcu gnyis
Tibetan (phonetics): kyemche chuñi
English term: Twelve sense bases
Alternative: Twelve sensory bases
English Definition: When the process of perception is described from the perspective of the bases of perception – that is, leaving aside the resultant consciousnesses – one speaks of twelve bases. These can be divided into inner and outer bases, namely: 1-2) visual faculty and form, 3-4) auditive facultive and sound, 5-6) olfactory faculty and smell, 7-8) gustatory faculty and taste, 9-10) somatic faculty and touch, 11-12) mental faculty and phenomena. The Buddha taught the twelve sense bases to undermine the view of the self as the witness or perceiver of experience: the process of perception occurs based on these twelve components, without there being an independent entity. The 12 bases are included within the 18 elements, so both encompass all possible objects of knowledge: conditioned and unconditioned. Spanish: Doce bases sensoriales