(1) A karmic cause developing or growing to the point at which it can bear fruit, which means produce its result. This is ripening in its definitional sense. (2) A karmic causal factor on a mental continuum exhausting and finishing its presence there as it produces its fruit.
Tibetan: སྨིན་པ། smin-pa
Sanskrit: vipāka
J. Hopkins: Ripen; Mature; Fructify; Maturation; Ripening; Matured; Ripened
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