AQA GCSE Religious Studies A · 8062
Paper 1
Revise: Human PersonalityTheravada teaching examines the Five Aggregates; Mahayana teaching emphasises their emptiness and the possibility of attaining Buddhahood.
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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
The five changing aspects that make up a person: form, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness. They are also called skandhas.
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Paper 1
Revise: Human PersonalityTheravada teaching examines the Five Aggregates; Mahayana teaching emphasises their emptiness and the possibility of attaining Buddhahood.
Paper 3
The five changing elements that together make up a human being: form, sensations, perception, mental formations and consciousness. Also called (s)khandas, meaning ‘heaps’.
Revise: Human PersonalityTheravada teaching explains the person through the Five Aggregates. Mahayana teaching particularly emphasises sunyata, or emptiness, and Tathagatagarbha, or Buddha-nature. These are different emphases, not completely unrelated accounts of human life.
Name all five aggregates using the specification’s terms: form, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness.
When comparing traditions, explain their different emphases without claiming that only Theravada Buddhists accept the Five Aggregates.
Name all five aggregates, then explain how their constant change connects to anicca and anatta.
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