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- noun in Buddhism Any of the five types of
attribute that constitute thepersonality of anindividual
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Correspondingly, wisdom in tantra is the discriminating awareness of the voidness of ourselves in terms of being Buddha-figures, and not simply the voidness of ourselves in terms of the aggregate factors (Skt. skandha) that constitute our ordinary bodies and minds.
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The Eighth Karmapa, however, asserts that shravaka and pratyekabuddha aryas have this nonconceptual cognition of the voidness of only the five aggregate factors of experience (phung-po lnga, Skt. panca skandha; five aggregates), the twelve stimulators of cognition (skye-mched bcu-gnyis, Skt. dvadasha ayatana), and eighteen sources of cognition (khams bcu-brgyad, Skt. ashtadasha dhatu) associated with their own mental continuums, as well as of untainted true pathway minds (zag-med lam-bden; uncontanimated true paths).
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It is not simply the voidness of ourselves in terms of the aggregate factors (phung-po, Skt. skandha) that constitute our ordinary bodies and minds.
The Union of Method and Wisdom in Sutra and Tantra: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations 2006
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It is not simply the voidness of ourselves in terms of the aggregate factors (phung-po, Skt. skandha) that constitute our ordinary bodies and minds.
The Union of Method and Wisdom in Sutra and Tantra: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations 2006
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The Eighth Karmapa, however, asserts that shravaka and pratyekabuddha aryas have this nonconceptual cognition of the voidness of only the five aggregate factors of experience (phung-po lnga, Skt. panca skandha; five aggregates), the twelve stimulators of cognition (skye-mched bcu-gnyis, Skt. dvadasha ayatana), and eighteen sources of cognition (khams bcu-brgyad, Skt. ashtadasha dhatu) associated with their own mental continuums, as well as of untainted true pathway minds (zag-med lam-bden; uncontanimated true paths).
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The aggregates refer to the five aggregate factors (phung-po, Skt. skandha) that comprise each moment of our experience.
Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness 2006
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Moments of sem are the immediately preceding condition (de-ma-thag rkyen) for our experience being comprised of the five aggregate factors (phung-po, Skt. skandha).
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Correspondingly, wisdom in tantra is the discriminating awareness of the voidness of ourselves in terms of being Buddha-figures, and not simply the voidness of ourselves in terms of the aggregate factors (Skt. skandha) that constitute our ordinary bodies and minds.
Making Sense of Tantra ��� 6 Gelug Presentation of Tantra in General 2002
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The five aggregate factors of experience (phung-po, Skt. skandha, aggregates) constitute a classification scheme for those variables - in other words, for the nonstatic (impermanent) components.
Basic Scheme of the Five Aggregate Factors of Experience 2002
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As in the case of the five aggregates (Skt. skandha), each is represented in purified form by a Buddha-figure (yi-dam), associated with one of the five types of deep awareness (ye-shes, Buddha-wisdom).
artoparts commented on the word skandha
Five aspects of personality, form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and conciousness.
November 26, 2008