རོའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དང་། རེག་བྱའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དང་། ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དེ། དེ་དག་ནི་ཕྱིའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག་ཅེས་བྱའོ། །དེ་ལ་ཁམས་བཅྭ་བརྒྱད་གང་ཞེ་ན། འདི་ལྟ་སྟེ། མིག་གི་ཁམས་དང་། གཟུགས་ཀྱི་ཁམས་དང་།
“If you ask what are the ‘eighteen sensory elements,’ they comprise (1) the sensory element of the eyes, (2) the sensory element of sights, and (3) the sensory element of visual consciousness; (4) the sensory element of the ears, (5) the sensory element of sounds, and (6) the sensory element of auditory consciousness; (7) the sensory element of the nose, (8) the sensory element of odors, and (9) the sensory element of olfactory consciousness; (10) the sensory element of the tongue, (11) the sensory element of tastes, and (12) the sensory element of gustatory consciousness; (13) the sensory element of the body, (14) the sensory element of tangibles, and (15) the sensory element of tactile consciousness; and (16) the sensory element of the mental faculty, (17) the sensory element of mental phenomena, and (18) the sensory element of mental consciousness.
Light, Reality, Assembly