法界次第初門 1.79

1.79

Next to nāma and rūpa, we elucidate the five skandhas because deluded persons are predominantly confused about nāma. In the great sages' teaching gates, opening nāma yields four mental [skandhas], which in contrast to form are combined to make five. These five are universally called "skandhas" (yin) because, to explain broadly, yin has the meaning of "concealing and covering"; they can cover over the wisdom of supramundane true clarity and increase birth-and-death, gathering and dispersing without cessation; hence they are universally called skandhas (yin).