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Nāma-rūpa

Name-and-form: mind and body, mentality and materiality, as Buddhism analyses experience.

Also: Nama rupa, mentality-materiality

Early Buddhism and the Theravāda

Nāma-rūpa is an old Indian term that Buddhism uses for the mental and material aspects of a being. In dependent origination it arises from consciousness and gives rise to the six senses. In the Visuddhimagga, the discernment of mentality and materiality, with no self beyond them, is the purification of view.