Five Aggregates

The samsara-builder network of positive force gives rise to a samsaric body and samsaric happiness, while the enlightenment-builder network of positive force ripens into to a Buddha Form Body and untainted bliss. There is a similar distinction with the samsara-builder and...

The term “four hallmarks” means the four characteristics or features that define an outlook on life with a Buddhist view, based on what Buddha taught.

The five aggregates constitute a classification scheme for the variables of our experience and their components. 

The five aggregates perpetuate suffering and unsatisfactory happiness, yet the state of mind that will get rid of the source of our suffering is within the five aggregates.

In the study of abhidharma, special topics of knowledge, one explores the logical pervasions between these three sets of phenomena.

The Prasangika refutation of the so-called “false self” provides the subtlest, most sophisticated deconstruction of this misconceived version of how we and others exist. In order to understand fully the Prasangika view, we need to go step by step through the grosser...