DDB: 五蘊 |

五蘊

Readings

Pinyin: wǔyùn

Wade-Giles: wu-yün

Hangul: 오온

Korean MC: o-on

Korean MR: o'on

Katakana: ゴウン

Hepburn: goun

ngũ uẩn

five aggregates

Also translated into Chinese as 五陰 and 五衆. "Skandha" 蘊 means "accumulation." The collection of the five compositional elements of our existence. The five skandhas are the division of matter and mind into five categories, which are form, feeling, perception, impulse and consciousness. "Form" 色 (rūpa) is matter in general, the body or materiality. "Feeling" 受 (vedanā) is receptive or sensory function. "Perception" 想 (saṃjñā) refers to images that surface in the mind. Symbolic function. "Impulse" 行 (saṃskāra) is will, intention, or the mental function that accounts for craving. The power of formation potential. It is also understood as all of the general mental functions not included in the skandhas of feeling or perception. "Consciousness" 識 (vijñāna) is the cognitive, or discriminating function. Knowing through discrimination (Skt. pañca-skandha). The first is physical, the other four mental qualities; (2), (3), and (4) are associated with mental functioning, and therefore with 心所; (5) is associated with the faculty or nature of the mind 心王 manas. (Skt. skandha-pañcaka, pañca-skandhaka, pañca-skandhāḥ; Pāli pañca-khandhā; Tib. phung po lnga) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): JEBD, Soothill, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind, Yokoi]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 265

Bulgyo sajeon, 616a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 328d

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 261

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 87, 306, 337

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 91a/100

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 177

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 5-P106, 9-P110

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 355a

Fo Guang Dictionary, 1212

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0090

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)1094c,993b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 125-1*511-3

(Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, 126

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