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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
An aggregate considered as something that can be grasped at or clung to, sustaining attachment.
Used by Edexcel
Specification 1.7 · Paper 2
Revise: Human Nature: Aggregates, Emptiness and Buddha-natureIn the Khandha Sutta, SN 22.48, the Buddha addresses monks at Savatthi. He announces that he will teach both the five aggregates and the five clinging-aggregates.
Specification 1.7 · Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
An aggregate experienced as something to cling to or identify with, rather than simply recognised as a changing aspect of experience.
For the Khandha Sutta, explain its distinction between the five aggregates and the five clinging-aggregates, rather than only listing the five names.
For the Khandha Sutta, distinguish the five aggregates from the five clinging-aggregates. They are not two different sets of five parts.
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In the Khandha Sutta, the Buddha addresses monks at Savatthi and announces that he will teach ‘the five aggregates & the five clinging-aggregates’.
