Taints
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.)