Kāmarāga
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kāmarāga (T. 'dod pa la 'dod chags འདོད་པ་ལ་འདོད་ཆགས་; C. yutan 欲貪) is translated as "sensual craving," "sensuous craving," etc. It is the desire for physical pleasure and sensuality. It is an intensification of mere kāma (sensuality).[1]
Kāmarāga is identified as:
- one of the ten fetters
- one of the seven underlying tendencies (anusaya) in the Pali tradition and the Abhidharma-kosa of the Sanskrit tradition
Underlying tendency (anusaya)
In the context of the underlying tendencies (anusaya):
- ... attachment to sensuality (kāmarāga) is the attachment of the desire realm that hungers after sensory objects of the desire realm – sights, sounds, and so forth.[2]
Kāmarāga is distinguished from attachment to existence (bhavarāga), which is defined as "attachment to birth in the form and formless realms; it is possessed by beings in all three realms who cling to the bliss of concentration."[2]
Notes
- ↑ Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. kāmaragā.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dalai Lama & Thubten Chodron 2018b, s.v. Chapter 3: True Origins of Dukkha, section "Underlying Tendencies".
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University
Dalai Lama; Thubten Chodron (2018b), Saṃsāra, Nirvāṇa, and Buddha Nature, The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, Volume 3, Wisdom Publications