名色

nāmarūpa, name-form, or name and form, one of the twelve (sa) nidānas. In Brahminical tradition it served 'to denote spirit and matter', 'the concrete individual', Keith; in Buddhism it is intp. as the 五蘊 five (sa) skandhas or aggregates, i, e. a 'body', 受, 想, 行, and 識 (sa) vedana, (sa) saṃjñā, (sa) karman, and (sa) vijñāna being the 'name' and 色 rupa the 'form'; the first-named four are mental and the last material. 色 Rupa is described as the minutest particle of matter, that which has resistance; the embryonic body or foetus is a (sa) nāmarūpa, something that can be named.