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n. (context Buddhism English) Any of the five attribute that constitute the sentient being; aggregate
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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 elements constitute and completely explain a living being’s mental and physical existence. The five aggregates or heaps are: matter or body (rupa), sensations or feelings (vedana), perceptions (samjna), mental formations (sankhara), and consciousness (vijnana).
The skandhas explain what is a "being or individual", and the skandhas theory 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 there is no-self, a being is five aggregates, each of which are "not I, and not my self", and each of the skandha is empty, without substance.
In the Theravada tradition, suffering arises when one identifies with or clings to an aggregate. This suffering is extinguished by relinquishing attachments to aggregates. The Mahayana tradition asserts that the nature of all aggregates as intrinsically empty of independent existence. The skandhas concept to explain a thing or being is unique to Buddhism among major Indian religions, and is not shared by Hinduism and Jainism which believe that a living being has a soul, metaphysical self.
Usage examples of "skandha".
All may seem to go well, but, at any moment, it is possible you may do something, show her some sight, or some way of seeing which will break in upon her selfhood, break a skandha and pouf!
Abhi-dharma, but the skandhas are, as it were, just the beginning of the story.
Each of the five skandhas is a part of the eccentricity that we call identity, then on top come the neuroses and all the other messes which follow after and keep us in business.
The skandhas are a part of the subject, basic, unique, the stuff of his being.
Four, her sense of identity and her desires, or her skandhas, or whatever you want to call them, are as firm as the Rock of Gibraltar.
A more careful meditative analysis of the mind stream, it is said, will reveal that the skandhas, although real enough in themselves, do not constitute a real and enduring self (but are instead simply discrete and momentary elements of experience), and thus this liberating discovery is simultaneously a release from the pain (duhkha) of defending an entity that isn't even there.