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the Five Aggregates;
the five groups of existence;
the five causally conditioned elements of
existence forming a being or entity, viz.,
corporeality,
feeling ,
perception,
mental formations and consciousness.
The five skandhas
The sutras describe five aggregates:[d]

"form" or "matter"[e] (Skt., Pli rpa; Tib. gzugs): external and internal
matter. Externally, rupa is the physical world. Internally, rupa includes the
material body and the physical sense organs.[f]
"sensation" or "feeling" (Skt., Pli vedan; Tib. tshor-ba): sensing an
object[g] as either pleasant or unpleasant or neutral.[h][i]
"perception", "conception", "apperception", "cognition", or
"discrimination" (Skt. samj, Pli sa, Tib. 'du-shes): registers whether
an object is recognized or not (for instance, the sound of a bell or the
shape of a tree).
"mental formations", "impulses", "volition", or "compositional factors"
(Skt. samskra, Pli sakhra, Tib. 'du-byed): all types of mental habits,
thoughts, ideas, opinions, prejudices, compulsions, and decisions triggered
by an object.[j]
"consciousness" or "discernment"[k] (Skt. vijna, Pli via,[l] Tib.
rnam-par-shes-pa):
In the Nikayas/gamas: cognizance,[5][m] that which discerns[6][n]
In the Abhidhamma: a series of rapidly changing interconnected
discrete acts of cognizance.[o]
In some Mahayana sources: the base that supports all experience.[p]
The Buddhist literature describes the aggregates as arising in a linear or
progressive fashion, from form to feeling to perception to mental
formations to consciousness.[q] In the early texts, the scheme of the five
aggregates is not meant to be an exhaustive classification of the human
being. Rather it describes various aspects of the way an individual
manifests.[7]

1. matter; form; material; body; shape; corporeality.

2. object of the eye; visible object.

feeling; sensation.

perception; idea; ideation.

1. compounded things; component things; conditioned things; the world of

phenomena; all things which have been made up by pre-existing causes;
(as in Sabbe Sankhara anicca-ti).
2. volitional activities; formations; Karma formations; mental formations;
mental predispositions; volitional impulses; impulses and emotions;
volition; all the mental factors except feeling and perception having
volition as the constant factor, (as in the Five Aggregates and in the Law
of Causation).
3. essential conditions; the sum of the
conditions or essential properties for a given process or result;
constructing or formative factors, (as in Ayusankhara, Kayasankhara).

4. conductive factors; instigation (as in Sasankharika, Asankharika).

consciousness; act of consciousness;

(T., mis.) soul, spiri