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A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli. Although, in some cultures, five human senses [1] were traditionally identified as such (namely sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing), many more are now recognized. [2]
Five people, each exercising one of the five senses. Coloured lithograph after L.-L. Boilly. Sensory history is an area of academic study which examines the role the five senses have played in the past.
Pancha Bhuta (Sanskrit: पञ्चभूत; pañca bhūta), five elements, is a group of five basic elements, which, in Hinduism, is the basis of all cosmic creation. [1]
Tanmatras (Sanskrit: तन्मात्र = tanmātra) are rudimentary, undifferentiated, subtle elements from which gross elements are produced. [1] There are five sense perceptions – hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell – and there are five tanmatras corresponding to those five sense perceptions and the five sense-organs.
The first five external sense bases (visible form, sound, smell, taste and touch), and the first five internal sense bases (eye, ear, nose, tongue and body) are part of the form aggregate; The mental sense-object (i.e. mental objects) overlap the first four aggregates (form, feeling, perception and formation); The mental sense organ (mind) is ...
The Nine Consciousness levels firstly consists of the five senses (touch, taste, sight, hearing, smell. [3]) One is aware of these five consciousness levels from the moment they are born, taking in information about the outside world. [3] The sixth consciousness is when one learns to understand what is being taken in from the five senses.
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The Five Senses is a set of allegorical paintings created at Antwerp in 1617-1618 by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, with Brueghel being responsible for the settings and Rubens for the figures. They are now in the Prado Museum in Madrid.