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Cruelty (Skt. vihiṃsā; Tib. རྣམ་པར་འཚེ་བ་, Wyl. rnam par ‘tshe ba) — one of the fifty-one mental states defined in Abhidharma literature. According to the Compendium of Abhidharma, it belongs to the subgroup of the twenty subsidiary destructive emotions.
Definitions
In the Khenjuk, Mipham Rinpoche says:
- Tib. རྣམ་པར་འཚེ་བ་ནི་ཁོང་ཁྲོའི་ཆར་གཏོགས་པ། སྙིང་བརྩེ་བ་མེད་པར་རྣམ་པར་ཐོ་བརྩམ་པའི་ལས་ཅན་ནོ།
- Cruelty belongs to the category of anger. Its function is to be uncompassionate and cause harm. (Erik Pema Kunsang, Rigpa Translations)
Alternative Translations
- Hostility (David Karma Choepel)
- Violence (Gyurme Dorje)
- Harming (Tony Duff)