skandhan.
/ˈskʌndə/, U.S. /ˈskəndə/ Buddhism.
Each of the five categories of attributes which together constitute the personality and experience of an individual.The five skandhas are now often enumerated as material form, sensation, perception, predispositions, and consciousness (or variations conveying these concepts).
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1863 E. Schlagintweit Buddhism in Tíbet v. 43 If any Skandha, as sensation, were self-existent, another Skandha, as e.g. the organized body, would be also self-existent; but it is impossible to produce by the self-existence of sensation that of the organized body.
1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia vi. 172 Released from all the skandhas of the flesh;..saved From whirling on the wheel.
1891 B. S. Colyer-Fergusson tr. P. D. Chantepie de la Saussaye Man. Sci. of Relig. l xxiii. 600 Properly speaking, there is no transmigration in Buddhism, because in the dissolution of the Skandhas all individuality is entirely destroyed.
1913 G. F. Moore Hist. Relig. I. 293 The empiricial individual is a transient combination of five components (skandhas), viz., bodiliness, sensation, perception, predispositions, consciousness.
1943 A. Huxley Let. 11 May (1969) 489 I would like very much to see an account of..the Buddhist notion of skandhas, or psychic crystallizations.
2002 Mandala Mar. 14/1 This hardens the sense of other as the enemy and justifies a violent response, leading to the fifth skandha, the state of consciousness, which in this case becomes war hysteria.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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