'du shes

'du shes

It is perceptions that recognize and identify forms and objects, differentiating and designating them.

One of the five aggregates. It is also one of the five mental omnipresent (sarvatraga, {kun 'gro}) mental factors that necessarily accompany any cognition.

See "aggregate."

The mental process of identifying various perceived phenomena. One of the five skandhas.

The term is used in an ordinary sense in Sanskrit to mean "notion," "sign," "conception," "clear understanding." It is also used more specifically in Buddhist scholastic contexts in the phrase "the aggregate of perceptions" (saṃjñāskandha).

The third of the five aggregates.

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