Skandha

Skandha (Sanskrit, Faded: khandas), means " tas" , " amas" , " monceau" , and is often translated by " aggregate of attachement". It is about an important notion of the Bouddhisme.

Introduction

The five skandhas are, in the Bouddhisme, the components of what is commonly called: a person, a being. They are then the aggregates of attachment, the things to which that sticks which believes in " son" existence.
In this framework, " the five aggregates of attachment are suffering " ( Dhammacakkapavattanasutta ).

Skhanda can also indicate the totality of the Univers, the whole of all the conditioned phenomena.

Skandha and impersonnality

The design of aggregates goes against the belief in the person and her gasoline, or Atmân , concept hindouist.
The concept of aggregate affirms on the contrary the characteristic of “not-oneself”, Anatta .

Metaphor of the tank

The skandhas are thus the analysis of the various parts of what is taken for a whole - just like is taken for a tank the whole of the wheels, axles, horses, etc

Analyzes skandhas

There is a physical component and four mental, is five on the whole:
  1. the form, Rūpa
  2. feelings, Vedanā
  3. perceptions, Samjñā
  4. volitional formations, Samskāra
  5. conscience, Vijñāna, which is at the base of a belief in the duality subject/object.

  • Another denomination of these components is Namarupa.

Skandhas and mutual dependence

In the conditioned Coproduction, will samskāra them is conditioned by ignorance and conditions Vijñāna. Vedanā is conditioned by the contact and conditions thirst.

Risk incomprehension of the skandhas

The goal of the skandhas is thus to break the belief in the existence of one oneself fixes and inchangeant. However, the risk exists to regard the skandhas as fixed entities and inchangeantes (and thus making the same error, on a “lower” level), whereas each skandha is actually a process.

It is to avoid this risk that, in the Buddhism mahāyāna, the perfection of Wisdom affirms with force and insistence the Vacuité of the five skandhas. This is in particular expressed in the Sūtra of the Heart.

References

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