RUPA

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In general, 'rūpa' (Sanskrit; Pāli; Devanagari: रुपा) is the Buddhist concept of material form, including both the body and external matter. As such, it is the first of the five skandhas or aggregates. In regards to the six sense-bases, rūpa refers specifically to ''visual'' forms.^[1]
Rupa is also used to describe a statue, in which it is sometimes called Buddharupa.
As matter, rūpa is traditionally analysed in two ways: as four elements (Pali, ''mahābhūta''); and, as twenty-four aspects.

Contents

Four elements

Twenty-four aspects

See also

Notes

External links

Four elements

Existing rupa consists in the four elements:

★ earth or solidity

★ fire or heat

★ water or cohesion

★ air or movement

Twenty-four aspects

Rupa can also be reduced to these "perceived aspects".

★ eye

★ ear

★ nose

★ tongue

★ body

★ form

★ sound

★ odour

★ taste

★ femininity

★ virility

★ life

★ heart

★ physical indications (movements that indicate intentions)

★ vocal indications

★ space element

★ physical lightness

★ physical yieldingness

★ physical handiness

★ physical grouping

★ physical extension

★ physical aging

★ physical impermanence

★ food

See also

★ Buddharupa

★ Namarupa for the main concept

★ Skandhas: vedana, sanna, sankhata,vijnana

★ Body, sensations, perceptions, and consciousness

★ Three marks of existence

★ Abhidharma

Notes

1. When mapping the Buddhist notions of the aggregates to sense bases, the material-form (rupa) aggregate thus includes the visual (rupa) sense-object as well as the sense objects of sound, odor, taste, touch and mental objects.

External links

★ Maha-hatthipadopama Sutta Earth, water, fire and wind properties