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Skandha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3097 words) |
 | The five skandhas (Sanskrit) or five khandhas (Pāli) are the five "aggregates" which constitute individual experience according to Buddhist phenomenology. |
| Samsara: It is through the five skandhas that the world (samsara) is experienced, and nothing is experienced apart from the five skandhas. |
| Three Characteristics: It is through the five skandhas that impermanence (anicca) is experienced, that suffering (duhkha) arises, and that "non-self" (anatta or anatman) can be realized. |
| Anatta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2386 words) |
| The five aggregates of form, feelings, perceptions, mental fabrications and consciousness were described as especially misleading, since they form the basis for an individual's clinging or aversion. |
| The Buddha clearly stated that all five aggregates are impermanent, just as the burning flame is inconstant in one sense, and that knowledge or wisdom is all that remains, just as the only thing constant about a flame is its fuel, or purpose. |
| The predominant view is that there is no immortal personal "essence" within the living being and that the deluded view of a permanent self is a misconstruing of the being, who is made up of the five skandhas (impermanent constituents of body and mind). |
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