sankhãra: As a general term, sankhãra refers to all forces that form or condi­tion things in the phenomenal world of mind and matter, and to those formed or conditioned phenomena that result. As the fourth component of personality (sankhãra khandha) it refers to thought and imagination; that is, the thoughts that constantly form in the mind and conceptual­ize about one”s personal perceptions. Sankhãra creates these ideas and then hands them on to saññã, which interprets and elaborates on them, making assumptions about their significance

　　行(sankhāra)：一般上，行是指造作形成有爲世間物質與心理一切的力量，以及這造作的後果。作爲組合成人的其中一蘊，行蘊(sankhārakhand-ha)是指念頭與想象；也就是內心不斷産生的思想以及對認知的概念化。行製造這些觀念然後把它們交給想(saññā)，想即诠釋並詳盡地描述之，假設它們的意義。