Meaning of rūpa and its implications

It does. In Buddhist texts, it seems that rupa has two specific meanings. One is the imagery that’s seen with the eye and the other is the material form of the five khandhas. I think the second meaning is an extension of the first in some way, but I’m not an expert on Indic languages. I sometimes wonder, though, if rupa in the khandhas wasn’t originally a shorthand for all the sense objects. But at some point, it became a general term for whatever isn’t part of the mental process. I’ve not seen anything to suggest this in the texts, it’s just a speculation that makes sense.

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