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Five transitory personal elements of body, perception, conception, volition and consciousness that temporarily and uniquely come together to form the individual self.

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  • It is not the same soul that suffers, for in either case there is no soul; there is only a bundle of so-called skandhas -- certain faculties of mind and body newly...
  • There is a panoply of Hinayana terms for understanding reality, such as the five skandhas (Sanskrit: "heaps").
  • O Shariputra, a son or daughter of noble family who wishes to practice the profound prajnaparamita should see in this way: seeing the five skandhas to be empty of nature.
  • Sankhara-dukkha pain of formation is a subtle form of suffering inherent in the nature of conditioned things, including the skandhas the factors constituting the human mind
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