What is "skandhas"

Usage examples of "skandhas".

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.