Table of Contents
A Hypertext Presentation of the Buddhist World

Section One: Introduction and Home Page

Section Two: The Selfless (airatmya, bdag med)

A. Non-Existents (asat, med pa)

B. Existents (sat, yod pa)

1. permanent phenomena (nitya, rtag pa)
• space (akasha, nam mkha’)
• analytical cessation (pratisamkhyanirodha, so sor brtags ‘gog)
• non-analytical cessation (apratisamkhyanirodha, so sor brtags min gyi ‘gog pa)
• suchness (tathata, de bzhin nyid)
• Permanent phenomena not included in the previous 4
2. functioning things (bhava, dngos bo)
• form (rupa, gzugs)
• the five physical sense powers
• eye sense power (chaksurindriya, mig gi dbang po)
• ear sense power (shrotrendriya, rna ba’i dbang po)
• nose sense power (ghranendriya, sna’i dbang po)
• tongue sense power (jihvendriya, lce’i dbang po)
• body sense power (kayendriya, lus kyi dbang po)
• the five objects of the senses
• visible forms - objects of the eye-consciousness (rupa, gzugs)
• sounds - objects of the ear consciousness (sabda, sgra)
• odors - objects of the nose consciousness (gandha, dri)
• tastes - objects of the tongue consciousness (rasa, ro)
• tangible objects - objects of the body consciousness (sparstavya, reg bya)
• forms which are objects only of the mental consciousness
• forms arising from aggregation (of the eight substances), e.g., a single particle (abhisamkshepika, bsdu ba las gyur ba)
• space-form, e.g., appearance of clear space to a mental consciousness (abhyavakashika, mngon par skabs yod ba)
• form arising from promises, e.g., a vow or an absence of a vow (samadanika, yang dag par blangs pa las gyur ba)
• imaginary form, e.g., a house in a dream, or a non-actual meditative object such as an area filled with corpses (parikalpita, kun btags pa)
• form for one with meditative power, e.g., earth or water appearing to one in isolated meditative stabilization on earth or water (vaibhutvika, dbang ‘byor ba)
• consciousness (jnana, shes pa)
• mind (citta, sems)
• eye consciousness (chakshurvijnana, mig gi rnam par shes pa)
• ear consciousness (shrotravijnana, rna ba’i rnam par shes pa)
• nose consciousness (ghranavijnana, sna’i rnam par shes pa)
• tongue consciousness (jihvavijnana, lce’i rnam par shes pa)
• body consciousness (kayavijnana, lus kyi rnam par shes pa)
• mental consciousness (manovijnana, yid kyi rnam par shes pa)
• mental factors (chaitta, sems byung)
• five omnipresent factors (sarvatraga, kun ‘gro)
• five determining factors (viniyata, yul nges)
• eleven virtuous factors (kushula, dge ba)
• six root afflictions (mulaklesha, rtsa nyon)
• twenty secondary afflictions (upaklesha, nye nyon)
• four changeable factors (aniyata, gzhan ‘gyur)
• non-associated compositional factor (vipyayukta-samskara, ldan min ‘du byed)
• factors which are persons
• factors which are non-persons