B SKANDHA FIVE

khandha (skandha) ‘Aggregate’: one of the five physical and mental components of that which we regard as ‘ourselves’:

 rūpa, ‘form’;

vedanā, ‘feeling’;


 saññā (sañjñā), ‘perception’;


saṅkhāra (saṃskāra), ‘mental creations’;


viññāna (vijñāna), ‘consciousness’