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The Five Skandhas, Simply: A Buddhist Lens on Everyday Attention

Buddhism

The Five Skandhas, Simply: A Buddhist Lens on Everyday Attention

The five skandhas, or five aggregates, offer a Buddhist lens on body, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness—without reducing a person to a fixed self.

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Sixteenth-century Japanese lacquered wooden incense container, or kōgō, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art public-domain collection
Buddhism

The 1,400-Year History of Japanese Incense: From Driftwood to Kōdō

A 1,400-year view of Japanese incense: follow its journey from ritual driftwood to kōdō and understand how scent shaped courtly and daily life.

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