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Five aggregates

Form, feeling, perception, formations and consciousness: the five groups into which Buddhism analyses a person.

Also: skandhas, khandhas

Early Buddhism and the Theravāda

The skandhas, in Pali khandhas, are the five heaps of which a person is made: material form, feeling, perception, mental formations and consciousness. The Buddha taught that none of them is the self. Seeing this, one becomes disenchanted with them and freed from clinging.