Taints: Difference between revisions

From Rigpa Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
 
(One intermediate revision by one other user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
'''Taints''' (Skt. ''āsrava''; Tib. [[ཟག་པ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''zag pa'')—synonymous with [[destructive emotions]].  
'''Taints''' (Skt. ''āsrava''; Tib. [[ཟག་པ་]], ''zakpa'', [[Wyl.]] ''zag pa'') — synonymous with [[destructive emotions]].  


[[Vasubandhu]] says in his ''[[Treasury of Abhidharma]]'':
[[Vasubandhu]] says in his ''[[Treasury of Abhidharma]]'':
Line 11: Line 11:
*Contamination
*Contamination
*Defilements
*Defilements
*Outflows
*Outflows (Mental defilements or contaminations that “flow out” toward the objects of cyclic existence, binding us to them.)
 


==Internal Links==
==Internal Links==

Latest revision as of 22:28, 27 May 2021

Taints (Skt. āsrava; Tib. ཟག་པ་, zakpa, Wyl. zag pa) — synonymous with destructive emotions.

Vasubandhu says in his Treasury of Abhidharma:

Tainted and untainted phenomena:

Except the truth of path, conditioned things

Are tainted since taints

Can develop in relation to them.

Alternative translations

  • Contamination
  • Defilements
  • Outflows (Mental defilements or contaminations that “flow out” toward the objects of cyclic existence, binding us to them.)

Internal Links