བག་ལ་ཉལ་བ། | Glossary of Terms

Also translated here as “predisposition.”

Habitual impulses or subconscious habit patterns that underlie emotions such as desire and hatred. These are also causes for the perpetuation of cyclic existence.

Habitual impulses or subconscious habit patterns that underlie emotions such as desire and hatred. These are also causes of the perpetuation of cyclic existence.

A latent propensity, proclivity, or disposition.

Various unwholesome mental states that lead to continued suffering and existence.

The first stage in the development and expression of afflictions (Skt. kleśa, Tib. nyon mongs), followed by “belief” (Skt. dṛṣṭi, Tib. lta ba smra ba) and “manifest affliction” (Skt. paryutthāna, Tib. kun nas ldang ba).

Also translated here are “latent disposition.”

The BHS anuśaya differs from its meaning in Sanskrit but is the same as the Pali anusaya. It can also mean “tendency” and “disposition,” and the meaning can be positive as well as negative.

This is equivalent to vāsanā, “instinctual predilection,” and refers in Buddhist psychology to the subconscious habit patterns that underlie emotional responses such as desire and hatred.