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title: "Linked Discourses III: The Aggregates · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Khandhavagga"
author: "The Buddha"
translator: "Bhikkhu Sujato"
languages: [pi, en]
shelf: "Pali Canon"
section: 41 of 44
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-3/41/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, Linked Discourses III: The Aggregates · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Khandhavagga, section 41. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-3/41/"
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# Linked Discourses III: The Aggregates · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Khandhavagga

*The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato*

Form, feeling, perception, choices and consciousness: the five aggregates, and the teaching of not-self.

> Pali: the Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka (Buddha Jayanti edition, 2500), from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0).

> English: Bhikkhu Sujato, from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). Notes are not included.

> Rows follow the segment numbers the two texts share, gathered into paragraphs; verse keeps its lines.

## 41. Five Discourses on Not Understanding Form, Etc. · SN 33.16–33.19

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-3/41/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-3/41/#p-N

[¶0] SN 33.16

> Pali: SN 33.16

[¶1] At Sāvatthī.

> Pali: Sāvatthinidānaṁ.

[¶2] “Vaccha, it is because of not understanding form …

> Pali: Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho vacchagotto paribbājako bhagavantaṁ etadavoca— ko nu kho, bho gotama, hetu, ko paccayo …pe… rūpe kho, vaccha, ananubodhā …pe… “rūpanirodhagāminiyā paṭipadāya ananubodhā …pe….

[¶3] SN 33.17

> Pali: SN 33.17

[¶4] feeling …

> Pali: Sāvatthinidānaṁ. “Vedanāya kho, vaccha …pe….

[¶5] SN 33.18

> Pali: SN 33.18

[¶6] perception …

> Pali: Sāvatthinidānaṁ. “Saññāya kho, vaccha …pe….

[¶7] SN 33.19

> Pali: SN 33.19

[¶8] choices …

> Pali: Sāvatthinidānaṁ. “Saṅkhāresu kho, vaccha …pe….