The Buddha Project Reply To: Five aggregates and the omnipresent mental factors
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Hi Maureen,
These are two different lists for two different purposes.
The omnipresent mental factors are five aspects of all minds, among 51, that give basic explanation of how awareness functions.
The five aggregates are a comprehensive description of a psycho-physical being, but from a meditators perspective.
I can highly recommend:
Approaching the Buddhist Path: The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Ven. Thubten Chodron
…as a source to investigate these basic topics deeper