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skandha
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skandha

 Pali khandha

In Buddhism, any of the five elements that constitute an individual's mental and physical existence. They are rupa (physical matter), vedana (feeling), samjna (perception; Pali sanna), samskara (mental formations; Pali sankhara), and vijnana (consciousness; Pali vinnana). The four mental aggregates are perceived to be the personality or ego but are in fact only processes in a state of continuous change, subject to the effects of karma. At death the mental skandhas dissociate from the rupa and find a new physical base, resulting in a new birth.
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22-27): This has a parallel in a sutta in the Pali Khandha-samyutta, dealing with the khandhas (Gandhari sadha).
Andrew Glass. Four Gandhari Samyuktagama Sutras (Senior Kharosthi ... by Norman, K.R. / Acta Orientalia
Once one focuses on the khandhas and the real processes of which they are comprised, though, all are determined by conditions, though reasoning, etc.
"Freedom of the Will" in the light of Theravada Buddhist teachings by Harvey, Peter / Journal of Buddhist Ethics
 
 
 
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