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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
One of the five changing aspects of human existence: form, feeling, perception, mental formations and consciousness. Khandha means a ‘heap’ or aggregate; skandha is an alternative spelling.
Used by Edexcel
Specification 1.7 · Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
Revise: Aggregates, Emptiness and Buddha-natureIn the Khandha Sutta, the Buddha addresses monks at Savatthi and announces that he will teach ‘the five aggregates & the five clinging-aggregates’.
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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