khandha: Literally, “group” or “aggregate”. In the plural, khandhas refer to the five physical and mental components of personality (body, feelings, memory, thoughts, consciousness) and to sensory experience in general (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, tactile sensations). Also known as “ag­gregates of attachment” because they are the objects of a craving for personal existence, they are, in fact, simply classes of natural phenomena that continuously arise and cease and are devoid of any enduring self-identity whatsoever.

　　蘊(khandha)：意思是“組合”或“聚合”。複數的蘊是指個人五種生理和心理的組合(色、受、想、行和識)以及一般的感官接觸(色、聲、香、味和觸)。蘊也被稱作“五取蘊”，因爲它們是被執取爲個人存在的對象。其實，它們只是一組不斷生起滅去的自然現象，當中沒有永恒的自我或任何存在。