<P> "The three categories of the teaching are the skandhas, realms, and entrances .' Skandhas' refers to the five skandhas of form, feelings, thoughts, impulses, and consciousness .' Entrances' refers to the twelve entrances (āyatanas): the six types of external sense data of forms, sounds, smells, tastes, tangibles, and dharmas; and the six internal sense organs of eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind .' Realms' refers to the eighteen realms: the six types of sensory data, the six senses, and the six consciousnesses . The self - nature is able to incorporate the myriad dharmas and is named the' storehouse consciousness .' If one activates thinking, it is the' transformation consciousnesses,' the generation of the six consciousnesses to exit the six senses and see the six types of sensory data . </P> <P> In the 1920s, Japanese scholar Yabuki Keiki (矢吹 慶輝 1879 - 1939) produced an edition based on one of the Mogao Caves texts (the only one known at the time), dividing the text into fifty - seven sections . </P> <P> In 1934, D.T. Suzuki published an edition based on the Mogao Cave text, but incorporating corrections from the Tsungpao (Zongbao) edition . </P> <P> In 1993, the Buddhist scholar Yang Zengwen (杨曾文, b . 1939, Shandong) published an annotated edition of the second Mogao Caves text (which has fewer errors than the first Mogao Caves text). (Pine, 2006, Introduction) </P>

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