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'''Formations''' (Skt. ''saṃskāra''; Tib. [[འདུ་བྱེད་]], Wyl. ''‘du byed'') in [[Abhidharma]], the fourth of the [[five skandhas]], are divided into [[concurrent formations|concurrent]] and [[non-concurrent formations]].
'''Formations''' (Skt. ''saṃskāra''; Tib. [[འདུ་བྱེད་]], ''du jé'', [[Wyl.]] ''‘du byed'') the fourth of the [[five skandhas]].


==Subdivisions==
In [[Abhidharma]], formations are divided into:
*concurrent formations (i.e. concurrent to consciousness), which are the [[fifty-one mental states]], and
*[[non-concurrent formations]] which are neither matter nor cognition.
==Alternative translations==
*Conditioning factors
*Mentation / mental activities (Peter Alan Roberts)
==Internal Links==
*[[Conditioned]]
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Latest revision as of 19:38, 30 March 2020

Formations (Skt. saṃskāra; Tib. འདུ་བྱེད་, du jé, Wyl. ‘du byed) — the fourth of the five skandhas.

Subdivisions

In Abhidharma, formations are divided into:

Alternative translations

  • Conditioning factors
  • Mentation / mental activities (Peter Alan Roberts)

Internal Links