dvāviṃśatīndriya

Sanskrit: dvāviṃśatīndriya
Tibetan: དབང་པོ་ཉེར་གཉིས་
Tibetan (Wylie): dbang po nyer gnyis
Tibetan (phonetics): wang po nyer nyi
English term: Twenty-two faculties
English Definition: The term “faculty” literally means “predominance”, which in turn refers to the “predominant power” of the subject, such as the sense organs, with respect to its object. For example, the eye facilitates the arising of the eye-consciousness. Therefore, “faculty” can be summarized as that which facilitates, controls, governs, etc. over its own object. The topic of the faculties are taught in order to combat the notion of there being a main controller, creator, and so forth. They can be either defiling or undefiling; virtuous, nonvirtuous, or neutral. Specifically, these 22 faculties (i.e. 1-6) Six sense faculties, 7) life faculty, 8-9) two sex faculties, 10-19) ten mental state faculties, and 20-22) three undefiled faculties) are capable of either producing/governing one’s continuity within samsaric existence, leading one to the states of purity of detachment, and/or leading a being to the paths of Seeing, Cultivation, and No More Learning. Indriya is the second chapter of the Abhidharmakosha.
Spanish: Veintidós facultades