[INDOLOGY] Pancha -Skandha in Mahayana Buddhism

[Nagaraj Paturi]

https://trans4mind.com/personal_development/buddhist/5skandhas.htm



The Five Aggregates are (with the Pali):

1.      material form, or the physical world (*rūpa)*
<https://trans4mind.com/personal_development/buddhist/5skandhas.htm#01Material_Form>

2.      feeling or sensations (*vedanā)*
<https://trans4mind.com/personal_development/buddhist/5skandhas.htm#02Feelings>

3.      perception
<https://trans4mind.com/personal_development/buddhist/5skandhas.htm#03Perception>
(saññā)

4.      mental formations
<https://trans4mind.com/personal_development/buddhist/5skandhas.htm#04Mental_Formations>
(saṅkhāra*)*, and

5.      consciousness
<https://trans4mind.com/personal_development/buddhist/5skandhas.htm#05Consciousness>
(viññāṇa)

http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Five_skandhas



*Five skandhas* (Skt. *pañcaskandha*; Tib. ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ་
<http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=%E0%BD%95%E0%BD%B4%E0%BD%84%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%94%E0%BD%BC%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A3%E0%BE%94%E0%BC%8B>
*pungpo
nga*; Wyl. <http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Wyl.> *phung po lnga*)
— the five psycho-physical aggregates, which according to Buddhist
philosophy are the basis for self-grasping
<http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Self-grasping>. They are:

   1. form
   <http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Form&action=edit&redlink=1>
   (Skt. *rūpa*; Tib. གཟུགས་
   <http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=%E0%BD%82%E0%BD%9F%E0%BD%B4%E0%BD%82%E0%BD%A6%E0%BC%8B>,
   Wyl. *gzugs*)
   2. feeling <http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Feeling> or
   sensation <http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Sensation> (Skt.
   *vedanā*; Tib. ཚོར་བ་
   <http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=%E0%BD%9A%E0%BD%BC%E0%BD%A2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%96%E0%BC%8B>,
   Wyl.* tshor ba*)
   3. perception <http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Perception>
   (Skt. *saṃjñā*; Tib. འདུ་ཤེས་
   <http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=%E0%BD%A0%E0%BD%91%E0%BD%B4%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A4%E0%BD%BA%E0%BD%A6%E0%BC%8B>,
   Wyl. *‘du shes*)
   4. formations <http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Formations>
   (Skt. *saṃskāra*; Tib. འདུ་བྱེད་
   <http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=%E0%BD%A0%E0%BD%91%E0%BD%B4%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%96%E0%BE%B1%E0%BD%BA%E0%BD%91%E0%BC%8B>,
   Wyl. *‘du byed*)
   5. consciousness <http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Consciousness>
   (Skt. *vijñāna*; Tib. རྣམ་ཤེས་
   <http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=%E0%BD%A2%E0%BE%A3%E0%BD%98%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A4%E0%BD%BA%E0%BD%A6%E0%BC%8B>,
   Wyl. *rnam shes*)



On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:25 PM, alakendu das <
mailmealakendudas at rediffmail.com> wrote:

>
> The 5 skandhas or aggregates in Buddhism refers to
> Rupa,Vedana,Sangnya,Samskara,and Vigyan. The
> apporxiamate English equivalent of Sangnya ,which I could make out is -
> definition.
>
> Can anybody suggest any other term for Sangnya?
>
>
>
> ALAKENDU DAS
>
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-- 
Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )


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