Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)

Study on a Correct Interpretation of the Buddhist Notion of "Skandhas"

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Andrei V. Paribok
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Andrei V. Paribok
Available Online July 2019.
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10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.431How to use a DOI?
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Buddhist philosophy; Abhidharma; philosophical anthropology; translation; self-observation
Abstract

The term “skandha”, one of the most crucial ones in Buddhist doctrine and Abhidharma philosophy, has not been interpreted adequately until now. A pseudo literal and misleading “aggregate” is still prevalent as its translation. The situation with the any of the five skandhas of the list is no better. In this article is given a brief outline of a conceptual interpretation of this notion as well as each of the five skandhas. Primarily, it is neither a “Buddhist tenet” nor even a Buddhist philosophical concept of the human being but a scheme of self-observation recommended for a Buddhist yogi on the path. It consists of two pairs of structural units, which correspond to two main missions of mind viz. cognition and behavior control. The fifth item is an integrating mind function of choosing an object field.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
July 2019
ISBN
10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.431
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.431How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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