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    Challenges→The five aggregates are the primary categories for examining the phenomenal structure of sentient beings.

    Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośa identifies dharmas—not aggregates—as the primary analytical units of sentient experience.

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    • 1.Vasubandhu explicitly organizes the Abhidharmakośa into chapters on dharmas (skandhas, ayatanas, dhatus) before addressing aggregates, reflecting analytical priority.
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    • 2.Dharmas as irreducible momentary units better explain cessation and dependent origination than treating aggregates as fundamental explanatory categories.
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    • 3.The Abhidharma scholastic tradition treats dharmas as the ontological ground—aggregates are merely conventional groupings of dharmic elements.
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    • 1.The skandhas (form, sensation, perception, mental formations, consciousness) structure the entire Abhidharmakośa's analysis of experience, suggesting conceptual primacy.
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    • 2.Vasubandhu's dharma theory remains contested; some traditions prioritize aggregates as the essential framework for understanding non-self doctrine.
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    • 3.Distinguishing 'analytical units' from 'primary units' conflates epistemological organization with ontological commitment—textual structure doesn't settle metaphysics.
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