Skandha Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
A Skandha (Sanskrit; Pāli: Khandha; literally: "heap") is one of the five constituents or "aggregates" into which an individual is analyzed according to Buddhist phenomenology. The five skandhas are:
- rūpa, "form": the material body.
- vedanā, "sensation" or "feeling": the experience of receiving raw information, including pleasure and pain, through the sense organs and the brain.
- sajā, "perception" or "cognition": the forming of sensations into elemental patterns and concepts.
- saskāra, "mental formations" or "volition": all types of mental habits, complex ideas, opinions, compulsions, and decisions. Saskāras is the source of karma.
- vijāna, "consciousness" or "knowledge": dualistic awareness, which separates the world into self and other.
All personal experience are subject to these five aggregates, according to the buddhist concept. Therefore, there can be experiences where not all five skandhas are present; for instance, some stimulum from an object (form) in a sense organ (sensation) does not imply that this will generate a conscious experience.
The order of the skandhas is important, because it is considered that the latters are dependent from the formers. So, to the 5th skandha (consciousness) be present, all the four will also need to be present for a given experience. And to the 4th skandha (volition) to be present, all the 3 first (form, sensation and perception) are needed. and so on to the other skandhas.
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