Automatically arising disturbing emotions and attitudes

Disturbing emotions and attitudes that arise intermittently on a person's mental continuum without being based on that person having been taught an incorrect tenet system.

Tibetan: ཉོན་མོངས་ལྷན་སྐྱེས། nyon-mongs lhan-skyes

Sanskrit: sahajakleśa

J. Hopkins: Innate afflictions; Innate afflictive emotions

Synonyms: Innate afflictions


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