According to the Abhidharma teachings, all physical and mental faculties (Skt. indriya; Tib. དབང་པོ་, wangpo, Wyl. dbang po) are encompassed by a list of twenty-two faculties.<ref>List based on Mipham Rinpoche’s Khenjuk, Gateway to Knowledge, vol. I (Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1984 & 1997), page 67 & Philippe Cornu's article facultés, in Dictionnaire encyclopédique du bouddhisme, nouvelle édition augmentée (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2006), page 218.</ref>
These six control the apprehending of their individual objects. They are:
<noinclude>The six sense faculties (Skt. ṣaḍ indriya; Tib. དབང་པོ་དྲུག་, Wyl. dbang po drug) are:</noinclude>
These six faculties control the apprehending of their individual objects. Sometimes only five sense faculties are mentioned as they are material and the sixth, the mental faculty, is non-material.
The life faculty (Skt. jīvitendriya) controls the remaining in a similar class of sentient beings.
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form the respective physical supports for being male or female, are the basis for sexual pleasure, and control the unbroken continuity of births from a womb.
The five faculties of sensations control the experiences of the fully ripened results of karma. They are:
These faculties control the mundane virtues or the purity of detachment. They are:
The three pure faculties that control supramundane virtues of noble beings are:
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