Seventy-five dharmas (Buddhism)

The 75 dharmas, classified in a number of ways, are intended to provide a classification of all possible types of existence. They may be considered in 5 different types: physical; mental; those related to mind; those unrelated to matter or mind; unconditioned dharmas. The properties associated with the five sense organs and their objects are physical dharmas, (taste, tangibility, smell, etc), as is unmanifest physical form; the mind is the one mental dharma; mentally related dharmas number 46 categories in all, covering all mental events and each distinct from the others. These include attitudes and emotions, formation of categories, consciousness. Through learning to define and understand the dharmas, each experience can be analysed into its component parts, each transitory mental event from which the continuity of everyday experience is constructed being labelled and identified.