[INDOLOGY] Pancha -Skandha in Mahayana Buddhism

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Anyone thinking seriously about how to understand the skandhas should read
Sue Hamilton's brilliant study, *Identity and Experience: The Constitution
of the Human Being According to Early Buddhism* (2001). Amazon
<https://www.amazon.com/Identity-Experience-Constitution-According-Buddhism/dp/1898942234/>

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Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
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Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
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Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
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University of Alberta, Canada
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South Asia at the U of A:

​sas.ualberta.ca​
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On 15 December 2016 at 00:04, Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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>
> Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies
>
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>
> (Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )
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