- ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པའི་ཕུང་པོ།
- nye bar len pa’i phung po
- upādānaskandha
- Term
- aggregate for appropriation
- ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པའི་ཕུང་པོ།
- nye bar len pa’i phung po
- upādānaskandha
See “five aggregates for appropriation.”
- aggregates as the bases for clinging
- ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པའི་ཕུང་པོ།
- nye bar len pa’i phung po
- upādānaskandha
The five aggregates (skandha) of matter (rūpa), sensation (vedanā), perception (saṃjñā), karmic dispositions (saṃskāra), and consciousness (vijñāna). They are referred to as the “bases for clinging” (upādāna) insofar as all conceptual grasping arises on the basis of these aggregates.
- aggregates for appropriation
- ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པའི་ཕུང་པོ།
- nye bar len pa’i phung po
- upādānaskandha
Said of the aggregates individually, but more commonly in terms of all five as a collective, because they are “the basis of clinging to existence” (Edgerton).
- aggregates of appropriation
- ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པའི་ཕུང་པོ།
- nye bar len pa’i phung po
- upādānaskandha
The five skandhas seen as both caused by karma, and themselves the cause, through karma, of future existences.
- upādānaskandha
- ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པའི་ཕུང་པོ།
- nye bar len pa’i phung po
- upādānaskandha
The “skandhas of appropriation” or “appropriated skandhas,” this refers to the five skandhas as the bases upon which a nonexistent self is mistakenly projected. That is, they are the basis of “appropriation” (Skt. upādāna) insofar as all grasping arises on the basis of the skandhas.