concept

Skandha

Beliefs & concepts

One of the five aggregates composing experience in Buddhist speech. Not soul as enduring owner, and not mind as bare mood.

Also known as Khandha · Aggregates

Buddhist traditions

  • Skandha appears in Buddhist traditions.

    Watson’s Lotus Sūtra seats the aggregates among the analysis of the person and of empty dharmas in Mahāyāna speech. Skandha talk in that sūtra, not soul as enduring owner and not a psychology checklist dump.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)

    Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.