Knowra Five aggregates Five aggregates The five aggregates are form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness: changing groups of physical and mental processes used in Buddhist analysis of a person, rather than a permanent self.
Rūpa : In Buddhist thought, rūpa is material form, including the body and physical phenomena. It names the aggregate of bodily and material processes.
Dependent origination : Dependent origination is the Buddhist account of phenomena arising through conditions rather than independently. It explains how aggregates arise and persist through causes and conditions.
Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta : The Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta is an early Buddhist discourse analyzing the five aggregates as not-self. It applies the same test of change and unsatisfactoriness to each aggregate.
Ātman : Ātman is the enduring self or essence affirmed in several Indian philosophical traditions. The aggregates are not treated as an ātman or its permanent components.
Vedanā : Vedanā is the felt quality of experience, classed as pleasant, unpleasant, or neither. It isolates feeling tone from perception and thought.
Six sense bases : The six sense bases are the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind, with their corresponding objects. They condition the contacts through which aggregate experience occurs.
Khandha Saṃyutta : The Khandha Saṃyutta is a collection of discourses on the aggregates in the Pali Canon. Its discourses explain the aggregates, their arising, and their cessation.
Pudgalavāda : Pudgalavāda was a Buddhist school that affirmed a person not reducible straightforwardly to the aggregates. Its account challenges the claim that the aggregates fully explain personal continuity.
Saṃjñā : Saṃjñā is recognition or perception, the process of identifying features of experience. It names the aggregate that recognizes and labels what is encountered.
Contact (Buddhism) : Contact is the meeting of a sense faculty, its object, and the corresponding consciousness. It links sensory conditions to feeling and subsequent experience.
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