Difference between revisions of "Aggregates, Five"

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Aggregates, Five (Tib. spung po, Skt. skandha), lit. "heaps", "aggregates", or "events". The five aggregates are the component elements of form, feeling, perception, conditioning factors and consciousness. They are the elements into which the person may be analyzed without residue. When they appear together, the illusion of 'self' is produced in the ignorant mind. [MR]

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-[[Kalpa]] ([[bskal pa]]): A great kalpa, which corresponds to a cycle of formation and destruction of a universe, is divided into eighty intermediate kalpas. An intermediate kalpa is composed of one small kalpa during which the span of life, etc., increases and one small [[kalpa]] during which it decreases. [MR]
+[[Aggregates, Five]] (Tib. [[spung po]], Skt. skandha), lit. "heaps",  "aggregates", or "events". The five aggregates are the component elements of form, feeling, perception, conditioning factors and consciousness. They are the elements into which the person may be analyzed without residue. When they appear together, the illusion of 'self' is produced in the ignorant mind. [MR]
-[[kab tshe pa]] - period of famine /privation during the last kalpa [IW]
+[[Category: Key Terms]]
-[[kab tshe pa]] - n. of a period of hunger and privation during the last kalpa [RY]
-[[kal pa]] - SK kalpa [IW]
-[[kal pa]] - kalpa, SA [[bskal pa]] [JV]
-[[bskal chung]] - small kalpa/ [[aeon]] [IW]
-[[bskal chen]] - mahakalpa [according to the Abhidharmakosha tradition 80 small kalpas, acc to abhidharma-samuccaya = four {[[bskal chung]]} in human years [[dung phyur]] [[drug]] [[dang]] [[bye ba]] [[bdun]] [[sa ya gcig]] [['bum]] [[dgu khri]] [[gnyis]] = 671,920,000, or another tradition says [['khrug]] [[phrag]] [[bdun]] [IW]
-[[bskal chen]] - great [[aeon]]/[[kalpa]] [acc to Abhidharma-kosha = 80 {bskal chung} acc to abhidharma-samuccaya = four {[[bskal chung]]} see {[[bskal pa chen po]]} eighty intermediate [[aeon]]s {[[bar bskal]]} and is divided into; {[[chags pa'i bskal pa]] [[nyi shu]]} = twenty [[aeon]]s of the formation of the universe {[[gnas pa'i bskal pa]] [[nyi shu]]} = twenty [[aeon]]s of its persistence {[['jigs pa'i bskal pa]] [[nyi shu]]} = twenty [[aeon]]s of its dissolution, {[[stong pa'i bskal pa]] [[nyi shu]]} = twenty [[aeon]]s of vacuity) [IW]
-[[bskal chen]] - great aeon/ kalpa [IW]
-[[bskal chen]] - mahakalpa [IW]
-[[bskal mchog]] - supreme kalpa [IW]
-[[bskal pa]] - 1) universal; 2) gifted, fortunate; 3) long, removed, distant, protracted or hard to understand [anything]; 4) [[kalpa]] (age, cosmic period, very long measure of time syn: [[spyad zin pa dang]], [[yongs gyur]], [[lo'i phung po]]) [IW]
-[[bskal pa]] - 1) aeon, kalpa, age, period, cosmic period; time. 2) universally. See also / sometimes misspelling of {[[skal pa]]} [RY]
-[[bskal pa]] - kalpa, age, eon, fabulous period of time, various ages of the world, more than four billion years [JV]
-[[bskal pa]] - kalpa {[[de yang srid pa chags gnas 'jig stong bzhi'i yun la bskal pa zhes grags pa]]} the time it takes for the universe to form, to stay in existence, to be destroyed and to remain in a state of emptiness is called a [[kalpa]] [RY]
-[[Category: Key Terms]] [[Category: Mahayana]][[Category: Sutra]] [[Category: Vajrayana]] [[Category: Teachings]]

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