aggregate: khandha (Pali), skandha (Sanskrit) https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/study/khandha.html - **Form** — which covers physical phenomena of all sorts, both within and without the body — wears down or "de-forms." - *rupakkhandha* - **Feeling** feels pleasure, pain, and neither pleasure nor pain. - *vedanakkhandha* - Hedonic tone ([[Pointing Out Way]]) - **Perception** labels or identifies objects. - *sayyakkhandha* - **Consciousness** cognizes the six senses (counting the intellect as the sixth) along with their objects. - *viyyaakhandha* - Of the five khandhas, **fabrication** is the most complex. Passages in the canon define it as intention, but it includes a wide variety of activities, such as attention, evaluation ([§14](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/study/khandha.html#passage-14)), and all the active processes of the mind. It is also the most fundamental khandha, for its intentional activity underlies the experience of form, feeling, etc., in the present moment. - *sankharakhandha* Pointing out instructions: See the [[Three marks of existence]] in each of the aggregates