Formations

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

Subdivisions

In Abhidharma, formations are divided into:

• concurrent formations, 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)