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ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ། | Glossary of Terms
ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
phung po lnga
pañcaskandha
- Term
- Five aggregates
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
Form, feeling, perception, formation and consciousness.
- Five aggregates
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
The five constituents of a living entity: form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness.
- Five aggregates
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
The five aggregates of form, sensation, ideation, formation, and consciousness. On the individual level, the five aggregates refer to the basis upon which the mistaken idea of a self is projected. They are referred to as the “bases for appropriation” (Skt. upādāna) insofar as all conceptual grasping arises based on these aggregates.
- Five aggregates
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
The five aggregates (skandha) of form, feeling, perception, formation, and consciousness. On the individual level the five aggregates refer to the basis upon which the mistaken idea of a self is projected.
- Five aggregates
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
See “five aggregates for appropriation.”
- Five aggregates
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
The five constituents of a living entity: form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness.
- Five aggregates
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
The constituents of a human being: form, feeling, perception, formation, and consciousness.
- Five aggregates
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
The basic components out of which the world and the personal self are formed, usually listed as a set of five: form, feeling, perception, formation, and consciousness.
- Five aggregates
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
Five collections of similar dharmas under which all dependently arisen dharmas may be included: form (materiality), feeling, notion, assembled factors, and consciousness.
- Five aggregates
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
In Buddhist philosophy, the five basic constituents upon which persons are conventionally designated. They are material forms, sensations, perceptions, formations, and consciousness.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Five aggregates
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
The five “aggregates” comprising a living being.
- Five psycho-physical aggregates
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
The ordinary mind-body complex is termed the “five psycho-physical aggregates,” which comprise physical forms, feelings, perceptions, formative predispositions, and consciousness.
For a detailed exposition of the five psycho-physical aggregates in accord with Asaṅga’s Abhidharmasamuccaya, see Jamgon Kongtrul, TOK Book 6, Pt. 2: 477–531.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Five skandhas
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
The five constituents of a living entity: form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness.