Skandha | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-09

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00:01:05 1 Etymology
00:02:30 2 Description of the five skandhas
00:04:47 3 Interpretation
00:04:57 3.1 Aggregates of personality
00:07:34 3.2 Aggregates of experience and grasping
00:11:08 4 Understanding in Theravada Abhidhamma
00:11:42 4.1 Six sense bases
00:13:37 4.2 Eighteen Dhātus and Four Paramatthas
00:14:36 4.3 Twelve Nidanas
00:16:40 4.4 Satipatthana
00:18:10 5 Understanding in the Mahayana-tradition
00:18:32 5.1 India
00:20:28 5.2 China
00:21:49 5.3 Tibet
00:23:42 6 See also



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Skandhas (Sanskrit) or khandhas (Pāḷi) means "heaps, aggregates, collections, groupings". In Buddhism, it refers to the five aggregates of clinging (Pancha-upadanakkhanda), the five bodily and mental factors that take part in the rise of craving and clinging. They are also explained as the five factors that constitute and explain a sentient being’s person and personality, but this is a later interpretation in response to sarvastivadin essentialism. 
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).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.