APPROACHES TO THE CONCEPTUAL PERCEPTION OF THE FIVE AGGREGATES AND ITS IMPORTANCE OF SAÑÑAKHANDHĀ

Author Name: 1. Thuzarta 2. Dr. Yeshpal

Volume/Issue: 03/04

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/09.2022-87485598/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. PH.D. Research Scholar, Samrat Ashok Subharti School of Buddhist Studies, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Subhartipuram, NH-58, Delhi Haridwar Bypass Road, Meerut -250005, India.
2. Assistant Professor, Department of Language, Samrat Ashok Subharti School of Buddhist Studies, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Subhartipuram, NH-58, Delhi Haridwar Bypass Road, Meerut -250005, India.

ABSTRACT

The five aggregates are one of the most critical concepts in Buddhism. They function as a building block for the teachings of the Buddha. Without them, the instructions collapse. Understanding the five aggregates can help you unlock many Buddhist practices. Sanna is the faculty that recognizes. Most of the thinking fits into the aggregate of Sanna. The word “Sanna” means knowledge that adds together. “It is the capacity to conceptualize and recognize things by dealing with them with other things”. For example, we realize shoes as shoes because we deal with them with our former experience with shoes. When we see something new for the first time, we invariably flip through our mental index cards to find categories we can associate with the object. It is “some kind of tool with a red handle,” for example, adding the new thing in the categories tool and red.” We might deal with an object with its context. For instance, we recognize an apparatus as an exercise machine because we see it at the gym. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to identify the importance of five aggregates in Buddhism.

Key words: Buddhism, Five Aggregates, Society, and Saññakhandhā