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.)

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