The type of karmic force associated with a destructive action and which ripens intermittently into unhappiness and the suffering of problems and pain. It has two phases: (1) the negative karmic energy of the action and (2) the negative karmic potential after the action.
Tibetan: སྡིག་པ། sdig-pa
Sanskrit: pāpa
J. Hopkins: Sin; Moral wrong-doing
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