Five poisons Page

The five poisons (Skt. pañca kleśaviṣa; Tib. དུག་ལྔ་, duk nga, Wyl. dug lnga) are the following disturbing emotions:

# desire,
# anger,
# delusion or ignorance,
# pride,
# jealousy.

These five can be further condensed into the three poisons: pride is a combination of ignorance and desire (or attachment), and jealousy is a combination of attachment and aggression.

See also: Twenty subsidiary destructive emotions

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