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

 

The Five Aggregates are (with the Pali):

1.      material form, or the physical world (rūpa)

2.      feeling or sensations (vedanā)

3.      perception (saññā)

4.      mental formations (saṅkhāra), and

5.      consciousness (viññāṇa)

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

 

Five skandhas (Skt. pañcaskandha; Tib. ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ་ pungpo nga; Wyl. phung po lnga) — the five psycho-physical aggregates, which according to Buddhist philosophy are the basis for self-grasping. They are:

  1. form (Skt. rūpa; Tib. གཟུགས་, Wyl. gzugs)
  2. feeling or sensation (Skt. vedanā; Tib. ཚོར་བ་, Wyl. tshor ba)
  3. perception (Skt. saṃjñā; Tib. འདུ་ཤེས་, Wyl. ‘du shes)
  4. formations (Skt. saṃskāra; Tib. འདུ་བྱེད་, Wyl. ‘du byed)
  5. consciousness (Skt. vijñāna; Tib. རྣམ་ཤེས་, Wyl. rnam shes)

 


On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:25 PM, alakendu das <mailmealakendudas@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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