
色 ( sè)): matter, body or "material form" of a being or any existence. The Buddha teaches in the Pali Canon the five aggregates as follows: Johannes Bronkhorst renders skandha as "aggregates." Damien Keown and Charles Prebish state that skandha is ཕུང་པོ། in Tibetan, and the terms mean "collections or aggregates or bundles." Description translate skandha as "heap, aggregate", stating it refers to the explanation of the psychophysical makeup of any being. The Pali equivalent word Khandha (sometimes spelled Kkhanda) appears extensively in the Pali canon where, state Rhys Davids and William Stede, it means "bulk of the body, aggregate, heap, material collected into bulk" in one context, "all that is comprised under, groupings" in some contexts, and particularly as "the elements or substrata of sensory existence, sensorial aggregates which condition the appearance of life in any form". The term appears in the Vedic literature. Skandha ( स्कन्ध) is a Sanskrit word that means "multitude, quantity, aggregate", generally in the context of body, trunk, stem, empirically observed gross object or anything of bulk verifiable with senses. The Mahayana tradition asserts that the nature of all aggregates is intrinsically empty of independent existence. This suffering is extinguished by relinquishing attachments to aggregates. In the Theravada tradition, suffering arises when one identifies with or clings to the aggregates. mental activity or formations ( sankhara).sensations (or feelings, received from form) ( vedana).form (or material image, impression) ( rupa).The five aggregates or heaps of clinging are: They are also explained as the five factors that constitute and explain a sentient being’s person and personality, but this is a later interpretation in response to sarvastivadin essentialism.

In Buddhism, it refers to the five aggregates of clinging ( Pañcupādānakkhandhā), the five material and mental factors that take part in the rise of craving and clinging.

Skandhas ( Sanskrit) or khandhas ( Pāḷi) means "heaps, aggregates, collections, groupings".
