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Āyatana: In the Pali Canon, In post-canonical Pali texts & Related Buddhist concepts

In Buddhism, āyatana (Pāli; Sanskrit: आयतन) is a "center of experience" or "mental home," which create one's experience. The related term saḷāyatana (Pāli; Skt. ṣaḍāyatana) refers to six cognitive functions, namely sight, hearing, smelling, tasting, body-cognition, and mind-cognition.

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Āyatana topic overview

The analysis highlights In the Pali Canon, In post-canonical Pali texts and Related Buddhist concepts as prominent areas in the source structure around Āyatana.

Related topics
55
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
59
Extracted relationships
96
Concept neighborhoods
19
Bridge connections
59

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

In the Pali Canon · 36 topics
In post-canonical Pali texts · 9 topics
Overview · 5 topics
Related Buddhist concepts · 5 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Chinese
六入, 六処 (Pinyin: liùrù)
English
six cognitive functions, six sense bases, six sense spheres
Japanese
六入, 六処 (Rōmaji: rokunyū, rokusho)
Korean
육입, 육처 (RR: yuk-yip, yuk-tcher)
Pali
saḷāyatana
Sanskrit
ṣaḍāyatana

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

In the Pali Canon

In post-canonical Pali texts

Related Buddhist concepts

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Āyatana connects Entity context

The extracted context around Āyatana shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Āyatana → Aggregates, As, Becoming, Both, Buddha, Dependent Origination, Elements, Figure, In, Karma, Pali, Pali Canon, Samyutta Nikaya, Satipatthana Sutta, Skt, The, Twelve Causes, Wheel Another extracted example is Āyatana → Abandoning, Buddha, Fetters, In, MN, Pali, Satipatthana Sutta, Similarly, SN, The Buddha, To, Uprooting. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Āyatana

Top relations

related to Related Buddhist concepts · 18
Āyatana → Aggregates, As, Becoming, Both, Buddha, Dependent Origination, Elements, Figure, In, Karma, Pali, Pali Canon, Samyutta Nikaya, Satipatthana Sutta, Skt, The, Twelve Causes, Wheel
related to Liberation · 12
Āyatana → Abandoning, Buddha, Fetters, In, MN, Pali, Satipatthana Sutta, Similarly, SN, The Buddha, To, Uprooting
related to Five skandhas · 9
Āyatana → Based, Chachakka Sutta, MN, Pali, See Figure, Six Sextets, Such, Thus, With
related to "Aflame with lust, hate and delusion" · 8
Āyatana → Asivisa Sutta, Buddha, Buddha's Great Disciple Sariputta, Elsewhere, In, SN, The Vipers, Using
related to "The All" · 8
Āyatana → Abhidhamma, All, Buddha, In, Pali, References, SN, The All
related to Etymology · 7
Āyatana → Buddhist, Davids, PTS Pāli-English Dictionary, Pāli, Sanskrit, Stede, The
related to The roots of wisdom · 7
Āyatana → Buddhaghosa, CE, Dependent Origination, Four Noble Truths, In, Other, Visuddhimagga
see also · 5
Āyatana → Buddhist, Heart Sutra, Mahayana, Nidanas, Satipatthana Sutta
related to External links · 4
Āyatana → Salayatana Vagga, Samyutta Nikaya, Six Sense Bases, The Section
related to In post-canonical Pali texts · 3
Āyatana → Pali, The Vimuttimagga, Visuddhimagga

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

saḷāyatana sense pali six five mental consciousness contact buddhist objects sn buddha one organs skt mind experience pāli 35 internal

Āyatana relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 96 structured relationships around Āyatana. Examples in this analysis include Āyatana → Chinese → 六入, 六処 (Pinyin: liùrù) and Āyatana → English → six cognitive functions, six sense bases, six sense spheres. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ĀyatanaChinese六入, 六処 (Pinyin: liùrù)1.00infobox
ĀyatanaEnglishsix cognitive functions, six sense bases, six sense spheres1.00infobox
ĀyatanaJapanese六入, 六処 (Rōmaji: rokunyū, rokusho)1.00infobox
ĀyatanaKorean육입, 육처 (RR: yuk-yip, yuk-tcher)1.00infobox
ĀyatanaPalisaḷāyatana1.00infobox
ĀyatanaSanskritṣaḍāyatana1.00infobox
ĀyatanaTagalogayatana1.00infobox
ĀyatanaThaiอายตนะ (RTGS: ayatana)1.00infobox
ĀyatanaTibetanskye.mched1.00infobox
ĀyatanaVietnameselục nhập1.00infobox
Āyatanarelated to "Aflame with lust, hate and delusion"In0.60section
Āyatanarelated to "Aflame with lust, hate and delusion"The Vipers0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Āyatana bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Experience, Home and Pāli. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Āyatana
    • Experience
    • Home
    • Pāli
    • Term
    • Mental
    • Five
    • Buddhist
    • Internal
    • Mind
    • Sanskrit
    • Six
    • Sphere
  • āyatana
    • Experience
    • Home
    • Pāli
    • Term
    • Mental
    • Five
    • Buddhist
    • Internal
    • Mind
    • Sanskrit
    • Six
    • Sphere
  • pali canon
    • Saḷāyatana
    • Skt
    • Consciousness
    • Associated
    • Six
    • Sense
    • One
    • Organs
    • Buddha
    • Objects
    • Craving
    • Aggregates
  • five skandhas
    • Mind
    • Organs
    • Mental
    • Āyatana
    • Sense
    • Senses
    • Consciousness
    • Objects
    • Saḷāyatana
    • Pāli
    • Refers
    • Term
  • buddhist path to liberation
    • Home
    • Experience
    • One
    • Meditation
    • Mental
    • Pāli
    • Term
    • Āyatana
    • Object
    • Sutta
    • Six
    • Mind
  • pali commentaries
    • Saḷāyatana
    • Skt
    • Consciousness
    • Associated
    • Six
    • Sense
    • One
    • Organs
    • Buddha
    • Objects
    • Craving
    • Aggregates
  • material and mental objects
    • Contact
    • Home
    • Organs
    • Mind
    • Sn
    • Consciousness
    • Āyatana
    • Sense
    • Five
    • Buddhist
    • Discourse
    • Sutta
  • in the pali canon
    • Saḷāyatana
    • Skt
    • Consciousness
    • Associated
    • Six
    • Sense
    • One
    • Organs
    • Buddha
    • Objects
    • Craving
    • Aggregates

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Āyatana, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Āyatana with In the Pali Canon. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Āyatana — In the Pali Canon · splits 23 ⟂ 37
Āyatana — In post-canonical Pali texts · splits 50 ⟂ 10
Āyatana — Overview · splits 54 ⟂ 6
Āyatana — Related Buddhist concepts · splits 54 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Āyatana

Nodes60
Edges59
Triples96
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.033333
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Āyatana to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as In the Pali Canon, In post-canonical Pali texts & Related Buddhist concepts, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Āyatana · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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