ཕུང་པོ་

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ཕུང་པོ། (Wyl. phung po) n. Pron.: pungpo

  • psycho-physical constituents HVG
  • དུ་མ་སྤུངས་པ། (དངོས་པོ། མི་རྟག་པ། བྱས་པ། འདུས་བྱས། ཕུང་པོ། རང་མཚན་རྣམས་དོན་གཅིག) [Definition] KPH
  • Skt. skandha. From Sanskrit: √ [skand] in the sense of 'rising' | (in phil.) the five objects of sense (See [viśaya]) | (with Buddhists) the five constituent elements of being (viz. [rūpa], 'bodily form' | [vedanā], 'sensation' | [saṃjñā], 'perception' | [saṃskāra], 'aggregate of formations' | [vijñāna], 'consciousness or thought-faculty ') | (with Jainas) the body (in the widest sense, = [piṇḍa]) | the shoulder, upper part of the back or region from the neck to the shoulder-joint (in men and animals) | the stem or trunk of a tree (esp. that part of the stem where the branches begin) | a large branch or bough | a troop, multitude, quantity, aggregate | a part, division (esp. a division of an army or a form of military array) | a chapter, section (of a book, system &c.) | a tract, path, region (esp. of the winds, said to be seven) | a partic. form of the Āryā metre | a king, prince L. | any article used at the coronation of a king (as a jar filled with consecrated water, an umbrella) | a sage, teacher | war, battle | an engagement, agreement | a heron | equality of height in the humps of a pair of draught oxen ib. | = [sampaṛaya]and [bhadṛadi] | N. of a serpent-demon | of a poet | often w.r. for [skanda] | ([ā]), f. a branch | a creeper [Sanskrit] MVP MW

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