| Key Term |
kleśa |
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nyon mongs; disturbing emotions; afflictions; afflictive emotions; klesha |
| In Tibetan Script |
ཉོན་མོངས་ |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration |
nyon mongs |
| Devanagari Sanskrit Script |
क्लेश |
| Romanized Sanskrit |
kleśa |
| Tibetan Phonetic Rendering |
nyönmong |
| Sanskrit Phonetic Rendering |
klesha |
| Chinese Script |
煩惱 |
| Chinese Pinyin |
fànnǎo |
| Japanese Transliteration |
bonnō |
| English Standard |
afflictive emotions |
| Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term |
affliction |
| Richard Barron's English Term |
afflictive emotion; emotionally tainted; afflictive state |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term |
affliction; afflictive emotions |
| Dan Martin's English Term |
afflictive emotion |
| Gyurme Dorje's English Term |
dissonant mental states |
| Ives Waldo's English Term |
emotional defilement |
| Term Type |
Noun |
| Source Language |
Sanskrit |
| Basic Meaning |
Often referred to as poisons, these are a class of disturbing or disruptive emotional states that when aroused negatively affect or taint the mind. |
| Related Terms |
triviṣa |
| Definitions |
| Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism |
See page 438: In Sanskrit, “afflictions,” or “defilements”; mental factors that disturb the mind and incite unwholesome (akuśala) deeds of body, speech, and/or mind. In order to be liberated from rebirth, the kleśa and the actions they incite must be controlled and finally eliminated. A typical Standard list of kleśa includes the so-called three poisons (trjviṣa) of greed or sensuality (rāga or lobha), hatred or aversion (dveṣa), and delusion (moha). |
| Rangjung Yeshe's English Term |
Skt. kleshas. Emotions, conflicting/negative/obscuring. affliction [thd]. klesha 1) disturbed, weary/ troubled/ miserable; turbulent. 2) disturbing emotions, negative emotion. passions, affliction, emotionality, delusion, affect, bad thought, conflicting emotions, fettering passions; [something that is difficult which muddies the stream of awareness], hardship; Def: sems kyi rgyu'am byed pa ma zhi ba |
| Tshig mdzod Chen mo |
(kleshaH) lus sems gdung ba'i dka' las sam ngal dub dang/ mi dge ba'i las bskul bas rang rgyud rab tu ma zhi bar byed pa'i sems byung/ |