Skandha | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Skandha


00:01:16 1 Etymology and meaning
00:03:51 2 Description: the five skandhas
00:06:40 3 Application
00:06:49 3.1 Understanding Four Noble Truths
00:07:44 3.1.1 Understanding dukkha
00:08:58 3.1.2 Three marks of the skandhas
00:09:53 3.2 No essence
00:11:02 3.3 Arahants
00:12:05 4 Understanding in Theravada Abhidhamma
00:12:38 4.1 Six sense bases
00:14:06 4.2 Twelve sense bases
00:15:11 4.3 Eighteen Dhātus
00:16:07 4.4 Four Paramatthas
00:16:30 4.4.1 Ultimate realities
00:16:56 4.4.2 Mapping of the paramatthas
00:17:11 4.5 Twelve Nidanas
00:17:28 4.5.1 Inclusion of the five aggregates
00:18:22 4.5.2 Three lives
00:19:19 5 Understanding in the Mahayana-tradition
00:19:40 5.1 India
00:19:48 5.1.1 Prajnaparamita
00:20:59 5.1.2 Madhyamaka
00:21:29 5.1.3 Yogacara
00:21:47 5.2 China
00:22:34 5.2.1 Tathagatagarbha
00:23:08 5.3 Tibet
00:23:24 5.3.1 Insubstantiality
00:24:26 5.3.2 Deity yoga
00:25:08 6 Relation to other Indian religions
00:26:05 7 See also



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Skandhas (Sanskrit) or khandhas (Pāḷi) means "heaps, aggregates, collections, groupings". In Buddhism, it refers to the five aggregates concept that asserts five factors constitute and explain a sentient being’s mental and physical existence. The five aggregates or heaps are: form (or matter or body) (rupa), sensations (or feelings, received from form) (vedana), perceptions (samjna), mental activity or formations (sankhara), and consciousness (vijnana).The skandhas concept is in contradistinction to the idea of a unified "being or individual", and complements the anatta doctrine of Buddhism which asserts that all things and beings are without self. The anatta and "five aggregates" doctrines are part of the liberating knowledge in Buddhism, wherein one realizes that the "being" is merely made up of a temporary grouping of five aggregates, each of which are "not I, and not myself", and each of the skandha is empty, without substance.In the Theravada tradition, suffering arises when one identifies with or clings to the aggregates. This suffering is extinguished by relinquishing attachments to aggregates. The Mahayana tradition asserts that the nature of all aggregates is intrinsically empty of independent existence.