Contaminated and uncontaminated

Abhidharmakosha: When established base is divided, there are:

  1. Contaminated: A phenomenon that is suitable to increase contamination or afflictions through either observation or concomitance.
    དམིགས་པ་དང་མཚུངས་ལྡན་གང་རུང་གི་སྒོ་ནས་ཟག་པའམ་ཉོན་མོངས་རྒྱས་སུ་རུང་བའི་ཆོས། ཟག་བཅས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ཉིད།
    Illustration: the five contaminated aggregates / root and secondary afflictions
    All compounded phenomena apart from true paths.
  2. Uncontaminated: A phenomenon that is not suitable to increase contamination through either observation or concomitance.
    དམིགས་པའམ་མཚུངས་ལྡན་གང་རུང་གི་སྒོ་ནས་ཀྱང་ཟག་པ་རྒྱས་སུ་མི་རུང་བའི་ཆོས། ཟག་མེད་ཀྱི་མཚན་ཉིད།
    Illustration: true paths and cessations, uncompounded space

See also: Contaminated and uncontaminated (Abhidharma)


Abhidharmasamuccaya: Six doors of contamination


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