The fourth of the twelve links of dependent arising. The four mental aggregates – consciousness, feeling a level of happiness, distinguishing, and other affecting variables, some of which are merely potentials – together with the aggregate of forms of physical phenomena during a rebirth on the plane of sensory desires or the plane of ethereal forms, or without this aggregate during a rebirth on the plane of formless beings, during the period of time in the development of a fetus from the moment of conception up until the moment just before the cognitive faculties of seeing, hearing, and so on are differentiated.
Tibetan: མིང་དང་གཟུགས་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག ming-dang gzugs-kyi yan-lag
Sanskrit: nāmarūpāṅga
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