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SN 45.178PTS SN 5.601 min read

Grasping Aggregates

Upādānakkhandhasutta

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 45.178Linked Discourses 45.178
  • 0.214. Oghavagga14. Floods

0.3UpādānakkhandhasuttaGrasping Aggregates

1.1PTS 5.61“Pañcime, bhikkhave, upādānakkhandhā.“Mendicants, there are these five grasping aggregates.1.2Katame pañca?What five?1.3Seyyathidaṁ—rūpupādānakkhandho, vedanupādānakkhandho, saññupādānakkhandho, saṅkhārupādānakkhandho, viññāṇupādānakkhandho.The grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness.1.4Ime kho, bhikkhave, pañcupādānakkhandhā.These are the five grasping aggregates.

1.5Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, pañcannaṁ upādānakkhandhānaṁ abhiññāya pariññāya parikkhayāya pahānāya …pe… ayaṁ ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo bhāvetabbo”ti.The noble eightfold path should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these five grasping aggregates.”

1.6Aṭṭhamaṁ.