The Five Skandhas The Five Skandhas are central to the collection of early teachings of the Buddha known as Abhidharma, which consists of examinations of the makeup of the mind and experience in a kind of technical detail. The role of this information in the Buddhist path is to identify how there is no solid, singular or permanent self, while not denying experience. This PDF goes into a detailed description of the Five Skandhas. The 5 skandhas as described in Abhidharma