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2025-05-30

The () in offer a profound analysis of the self, revealing it as a dynamic process rather than a fixed entity. This framework deconstructs the illusion of a permanent self by examining form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness. In Buddhist thought, understanding these leads to insight into impermanence () and non-self (), guiding toward liberation from suffering ():

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Figure of a deity (oceanic art), Nukuoro, Caroline Islands, Micronesia, 19th century, wood, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, Germany. In Buddhist thought, the person as conventionally perceived is not a substantial self (ātman), but rather a provisional designation based on the five skandha — form (rūpa), sensation (vedanā), perception (saṃjñā), mental formations (saṃskāra) and consciousness (vijñāna). Just as this wooden figure evokes the human form without representing an individual person, so too does the self in Buddhist thought emerge from the dynamic interplay of impermanent aggregates, empty of intrinsic essence yet functionally coherent.The interplay of the Five Aggregates (pañca khandha) according to the Pali Canon. Source: Wikimedia Commonsꜛ (license: CC BY-SA 4.0)ꜛ.

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