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In Buddhism one way of describing experience (or being) is in terms of the twelve sense fields (eye and form, ear and sound, nose and odor, tongue and taste, body and touch, mind and mental objects).

One way of describing experience and the world in terms of twelve sense fields (eye and form, ear and sound, nose and odor, tongue and taste, body and touch, mind and mental objects).

Sometimes translated "sense-fields" or "bases of cognition," the term usually refers to the six sense faculties and their corresponding objects, i.e. the first twelve of the eighteen dhātu. Along with skandha and dhātu, one of the three major categories in the taxonomy of phenomena in the sūtra literature.

The six "inner" sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, tactile sense, and mind), and their respective six "outer" objects of forms, sounds, smells, flavors, tactile objects, and mental objects, are sometimes called collectively the "six sense sources" (q.v.), but are also sometimes taken as two separate groups, making twelve.

The six senses and their respective objects.

The subjective and objective polarities of sense perception.

The twelve bases of perception are divided into two groups, consisting of six inner and six outer bases. These are six sense faculties and six outer corresponding objects. Together they are the causes for the production of the six sense consciousnesses.

The twelve bases of sensory perception: the six sensory faculties (eyes, nose, ears, tongue, body, and mind), which form in the womb and eventually have contact with the six external bases of sensory perception: form, smell, sound, taste, touch, and mental phenomena.

The twelve sense-media are eye-medium (cakṣurāyatana), form-medium (rūpa-), ear-medium (śrotra-), sound-medium (śabda-), nose-medium (ghrāna-), scent-medium (gandha-), tongue-medium (jihvā-), taste-medium (rasa-), body-medium (kāya-), texture-medium (spraṣṭavya), mental-medium (mana-), and phenomena-medium (dharmāyatana). In some passages they are enumerated as six, the object-faculty pair being taken as one, and it is this set of six that is the fifth member of the twelve links of dependent origination. The word āyatana is usually translated as "base," but the Skt., Tib., and Ch. all indicate "something through which the senses function" rather than a basis from which they function; hence "medium" is suggested.

There are twelve bases of cognition in all: the five physical sense organs plus the mind and their respective six sorts of objects. The six inner bases from eye to mind are what apprehend; and the six outer bases from form to mental objects are the objects that are apprehended.

Twelve collections of similar dharmas, under which all compounded and uncompounded dharmas may be included: eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind, and their objects: visible forms, sounds, smells, flavors, touchables, and dharmas.

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