In classical Buddhist epistemology, Abhidharma, and tantric exegesis, “eye consciousness” (Sanskrit: cakṣurvijñāna; Pali: cakkhuviññāṇa; Tibetan: མིག་གི་རྣམ་ཤེས་, mig gi rnam shes; Chinese: 眼識, yǎnshí) is the first of the six sensory consciousnesses (ṣaḍvijñānakāya). It is defined as the distinct subjective awareness that arises in dependence upon the visual faculty or eye organ (cakṣurindriya) as its dominant support (adhipati-pratyaya) and visual form or color-and-shape (rūpa) as its objective condition (ālambana-pratyaya). Together, the eye faculty, form, and eye consciousness constitute the visual triad within the eighteen psycho-physical elements (aṣṭādaśa dhātavaḥ): the eye element (cakṣurdhātu), the form element (rūpadhātu), and the eye-consciousness element (cakṣurvijñānadhātu).