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ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ། | Glossary of Terms
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ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
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- five aggregates
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
See “aggregate”.
- 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.
- five aggregates
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
The five “aggregates” comprising a living being.
- five aggregates
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
See “aggregate.”
- 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.
- five skandhas
- ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ།
- phung po lnga
- pañcaskandha
The five constituents of a living entity: form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness.