首楞嚴義疏注經 3.2

3.2

Second, refuting the six sense entrances. In Sanskrit, praveśa, which is translated here as "entrance" (ru) or also as "base" (chu)—the place where sense objects enter, and also because it is the place where consciousness arises. However, both faculties and objects are places where consciousness arises; now, dividing the six faculties to refute them individually, the faculties alone are taken as entrances. The text has two parts: first, general inquiry.