塞建陀

(塞建陀羅); 塞健陀 (sa) skandha, 'the shoulder'; 'the body'; 'the trunk of a tree'; 'a section,' etc. M.W. 'Five psychological constituents.' 'Five attributes of every human being.' Eitel. Commonly known as the five aggregates, constituents, or groups; the (sa) pañcaskandha; under the Han dynasty 陰 was used, under the Jin 衆, under the Tang 蘊. The five are: 色 (sa) rūpa, form, or sensuous quality; 受 (sa) vedana, reception, feeling, sensation; 想 (sa) sañjñā , thought, consciousness, perception; 行 (sa) karman, or (sa) saṃskāra, action, mental activity; 識 (sa) vijñāna, cognition. The last four are mental constituents of the ego. Skandha is also the name of an (sa) arhat, and Skanda, also 塞建那, of a (sa) deva.