five aggregates

In Buddhist phenomenology and soteriology, the skandhas (Sanskrit) or khandhas (Pāḷi) are the five functions or aspects that constitute the sentient being.^[a][b] In English, these five aspects are known as the five aggregates.^[3] The five aggregates are: material form (corporeality), feelings, perception, volition (sometimes translated as mental formations), and sensory consciousness.^[3] Considering that the five aggregates continuously arise and cease within our moment-to-moment experience, the Buddha teaches that nothing among them is really "I" or "mine."^[4]