Mrakśa
{{Short description|Concept in Buddhism}}
{{Buddhist term
| fontsize=100%
| title=Mrakśa
| pi=
| sa= mrakśa
| en= concealment,
slyness-concealment
| bo= འཆབ་པ།
| bo-Latn=Wylie: 'chab pa;
THL: chabpa|zh=覆}}
Mrakśa (Sanskrit; Tibetan phonetic: chabpa) is a Buddhist term translated as "concealment" or "slyness-concealment". It is defined as concealing or covering up one's faults or uncommendable actions, from either oneself or others.{{sfn|Guenther|1975|loc=Kindle Locations 878-880}}{{sfn|Kunsang|2004|p=27}} It is one of the twenty subsidiary unwholesome mental factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings.
The Abhidharma-samuccaya states:
:What is slyness-concealment? It is to perpetuate a state of unresolvedness because of its association with dullness and stubbornness [gti-ruug] when one is urged towards something positive. Slyness-concealment has the function of preventing one from making it clean break with it and feeling relieved.{{sfn|Guenther|1975|loc=Kindle Locations 878-880}}
Alan Wallace states: "Concealment from one's own vices is a type of delusion that stems from ignorance. This includes self-concealment."{{sfn|Goleman|2008|loc=Kindle Locations 2480}}
See also
References
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Sources
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- {{Citation| last =Goleman | first=Daniel | year =2008 | title =Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama| publisher=Bantam, Kindle Edition}}
- {{Citation| last =Guenther | first=Herbert V. | year =1975 | title =Mind in Buddhist Psychology: A Translation of Ye-shes rgyal-mtshan's "The Necklace of Clear Understanding"| publisher=Dharma Publishing, Kindle Edition}}
- {{Citation| last =Kunsang| first=Erik Pema | year =2004 | title =Gateway to Knowledge, Vol. 1| publisher=North Atlantic Books}}
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External links
- [http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/%27chab_pa Ranjung Yeshe wiki entry for 'chab pa]
- [http://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies/science-of-mind/mind-mental-factors/primary-minds-and-the-51-mental-factors Primary Minds and the 51 Mental Factors]