Five aggregates

Japanese: 五蘊 - ごうん
Five aggregates

A Buddhist term. It is also called the five aggregates. "Ask" means a collection, and is a translation of the Sanskrit word skandha. In Buddhism, all existence is interpreted as a collection of five things, and each of these five is also made up of its own collection. The five are the form aggregate (a collective term for the sensory and material things that make up an object), followed by the feeling aggregate (accepting some kind of impression), the perception aggregate (the representational function that creates an image), the action aggregate (activeness, which exists latent and acts), and the consciousness aggregate (the function of specifically distinguishing and recognizing objects). This way of thinking of classifying everything into form - the objective thing - and feeling, perception, action, and consciousness - the subjective things - is considered to be an excellent tradition that has been consistent since the earliest days of Buddhism.

[Mitsunori Saegusa]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

仏教用語。五陰(おん)ともいう。「蘊」は集まりの意味で、サンスクリット語のスカンダskandhaの訳。仏教では、いっさいの存在を五つのものの集まりと解釈し、その五つも、やはりそれぞれ集まりからなる、とする。五つとは、色(しき)蘊(対象を構成している感覚的・物質的なものの総称)、以下は主体の意識において、受蘊(なんらかの印象を受け入れること)、想蘊(イメージをつくる表象作用)、行蘊(ぎょううん)(能動性をいい、潜在的にあり働く)、識蘊(具体的に対象をそれぞれ区別して認識する働き)をいう。このように、いっさいを、色―客観的なもの、受・想・行・識―主観的なものに分類する考え方は、仏教の最初期から一貫する優れた伝統とされる。

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